Sooty Barbthroat

Threnetes niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

Spanish: Ermitaño Barbudo Guayanés

The Sooty Barbthroat (Threnetes niger) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 5.6 g and its bill is 33.4 mm long. It lives in French Guiana and Brazil. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight

5.6 g, about 6 paperclips

Bill

33.4 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
3. Genus Threnetes barbthroats

Where it lives · 2 countries

• French Guiana
• Brazil

Others in the genus Threnetes

• Pale-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes leucurus
• Band-tailed Barbthroat Threnetes ruckeri

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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