Saw-billed Hermit
Ramphodon naevius (Dumont, 1818)
Spanish: Ermitaño Picosierra
The Saw-billed Hermit (Ramphodon naevius) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 7.9 g and its bill is 39.4 mm long. It is found only in Brazil. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.9 g, about 8 paperclips
- Bill
- 39.4 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Brazil
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
- Genus Ramphodon hermits
What Ramphodon share: The bill has tiny saw-like serrations along its edges.
Where it lives · 1 country
Nearest relatives, in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits)
- Buff-tailed Sicklebill Eutoxeres condamini
- Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii
- White-tipped Sicklebill Eutoxeres aquila
- Bronzy Hermit Glaucis aeneus
- Rufous-breasted Hermit Glaucis hirsutus
- Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri
- Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus
- Sooty Barbthroat Threnetes niger
- Broad-tipped Hermit Anopetia gounellei
- White-bearded Hermit Phaethornis hispidus
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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