Swallow-tailed Hummingbird

Eupetomena macroura (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Spanish: Colibrí Golondrina

The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 9.0 g and its bill is 24.6 mm long. It lives in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Suriname. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight

9.0 g, about 9 paperclips

Bill

24.6 mm

Lives in

Shrubland

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern

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 · 7 countries

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Paraguay
• Uruguay
• Suriname

Others in the genus Eupetomena

• Sombre Hummingbird Eupetomena cirrochloris

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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