Speckled Hummingbird
Adelomyia melanogenys (Fraser, 1840)
Spanish: Colibrí Jaspeado
The Speckled Hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 4.9 g and its bill is 17.9 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 4.9 g, about 5 paperclips
- Bill
- 17.9 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Adelomyia
Where it lives · 6 countries
Nearest relatives, in the tribe Lesbiini (coquettes)
- Peruvian Piedtail Phlogophilus harterti
- Long-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus kingii
- Ecuadorian Piedtail Phlogophilus hemileucurus
- Violet-tailed Sylph Aglaiocercus coelestis
- White-crested Coquette Lophornis adorabilis
- Venezuelan Sylph Aglaiocercus berlepschi
- Black-crested Coquette Lophornis helenae
- Red-tailed Comet Sappho sparganurus
- Peacock Coquette Lophornis pavoninus
- Bronze-tailed Comet Polyonymus caroli
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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