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Rufous-shafted Woodstar
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Rufous-shafted Woodstar

Chaetocercus jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839)

Spanish: Colibrí de Jourdan

The Rufous-shafted Woodstar (Chaetocercus jourdanii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.3 g and its bill is 14.9 mm long. It lives in Venezuela, Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
3.3 g, about 3 paperclips
Bill
14.9 mm
Lives in
Shrubland
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Mellisugini bees
  4. Genus Chaetocercus woodstars

What Chaetocercus share: Among the smallest birds in the world.

Where it lives · 3 countries

Others in the genus Chaetocercus

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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