Stripe-tailed Hummingbird

Eupherusa eximia (Delattre, 1843)

Spanish: Colibrí Cola Rayada

The Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 4.3 g and its bill is 19.5 mm long. It lives in Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

4.3 g, about 4 paperclips

Bill

19.5 mm

Lives in

Forest

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 Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Eupherusa woodnymphs

Where it lives · 7 countries

• Costa Rica
• Panama
• Nicaragua
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Belize
• Guatemala

Others in the genus Eupherusa

• Blue-capped Hummingbird Eupherusa cyanophrys
• Black-bellied Hummingbird Eupherusa nigriventris
• White-tailed Hummingbird Eupherusa poliocerca
• Mexican Woodnymph Eupherusa ridgwayi

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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