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Sombre Hummingbird
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Sombre Hummingbird

Eupetomena cirrochloris (Vieillot, 1818)

Spanish: Colibrí Apagado

The Sombre Hummingbird (Eupetomena cirrochloris) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 7.7 g and its bill is 24.9 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
7.7 g, about 8 paperclips
Bill
24.9 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

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
  4. Genus Eupetomena

Where it lives · 1 country

Others in the genus Eupetomena

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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