Santa Marta Woodstar
Chaetocercus astreans (Bangs, 1899)
Spanish: Colibrí Astral
The Santa Marta Woodstar (Chaetocercus astreans) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 2.0 g and its bill is 15.7 mm long. It is found only in Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 2.0 g, about 2 paperclips
- Bill
- 15.7 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
- Endemic
- Found only in Colombia
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Chaetocercus woodstars
What Chaetocercus share: Among the smallest birds in the world.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Chaetocercus
- Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor
- Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi
- Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus
- Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii
- White-bellied Woodstar Chaetocercus mulsant
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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