Straight-billed Hermit
Phaethornis bourcieri (Lesson, RP, 1832)
Spanish: Ermitaño Piquirrecto
The Straight-billed Hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 4.3 g and its bill is 34.0 mm long. It lives in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Suriname, Peru, Venezuela, French Guiana and Guyana. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 4.3 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 34.0 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, stable
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Phaethornithinae hermits
- Genus Phaethornis hermits
What Phaethornis share: Long, curved bills and long central tail feathers, often white-tipped. Males gather in leks to sing.
Where it lives · 8 countries
Others in the genus Phaethornis
- Needle-billed Hermit Phaethornis philippii
- Long-billed Hermit Phaethornis longirostris
- Koepcke's Hermit Phaethornis koepckeae
- Mexican Hermit Phaethornis mexicanus
- Tawny-bellied Hermit Phaethornis syrmatophorus
- Long-tailed Hermit Phaethornis superciliosus
- Green Hermit Phaethornis guy
- Great-billed Hermit Phaethornis malaris
- White-whiskered Hermit Phaethornis yaruqui
- Pale-bellied Hermit Phaethornis anthophilus
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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