Rufous Sabrewing

Pampa rufa (Lesson, RP, 1840)

Spanish: Fandanguero Canelo

The Rufous Sabrewing (Pampa rufa) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 7.1 g and its bill is 29.0 mm long. It lives in Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

7.1 g, about 7 paperclips

Bill

29.0 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 Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Pampa sabrewings

What Pampa share: Males have thickened, bent shafts on their outer wing feathers (the 'sabres').

Where it lives · 3 countries

• Guatemala
• Mexico
• El Salvador

Others in the genus Pampa

• Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Pampa curvipennis

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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