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Slender Sheartail
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Slender Sheartail

Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818)

Spanish: Colibrí Tijereta Guatemalteco

The Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 2.4 g and its bill is 21.9 mm long. It lives in Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
2.4 g, about 2 paperclips
Bill
21.9 mm
Lives in
Woodland
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 Mellisugini bees
  4. Genus Doricha sheartails

What Doricha share: Males have deeply forked tails.

Where it lives · 4 countries

Others in the genus Doricha

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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