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Rufous-gaped Hillstar
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Rufous-gaped Hillstar

Urochroa bougueri (Bourcier, 1851)

Spanish: Colibrí de Bouguer Occidental

The Rufous-gaped Hillstar (Urochroa bougueri) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 11.4 g and its bill is 33.3 mm long. It lives in Colombia and Ecuador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
11.4 g, about 11 paperclips
Bill
33.3 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, decreasing

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
  3. Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
  4. Genus Urochroa hillstars

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Urochroa

Sources

Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.

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