Scissor-tailed Hummingbird
Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873
Spanish: Colibrí Tijereta
The Scissor-tailed Hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems). It weighs about 7.3 g and its bill is 27.3 mm long. It is found only in Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Endangered, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.3 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 27.3 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Endangered, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Venezuela
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Lampornithini mountain gems
- Genus Hylonympha
Where it lives · 1 country
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems)
- Violet-chested Hummingbird Sternoclyta cyanopectus
- Rivoli's Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens
- Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii
- Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus
- Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer
- Fiery-throated Hummingbird Panterpe insignis
- Green-throated Mountain-gem Lampornis viridipallens
- Green-breasted Mountain-gem Lampornis sybillae
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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