Tooth-billed Hummingbird
Androdon aequatorialis Gould, 1863
Spanish: Colibrí Piquidentado
The Tooth-billed Hummingbird (Androdon aequatorialis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 7.3 g and its bill is 39.9 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Ecuador and Panama. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.3 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 39.9 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
- Genus Androdon
What Androdon share: Tiny tooth-like serrations near the tip of the bill.
Where it lives · 3 countries
Nearest relatives, in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes)
- Horned Sungem Heliactin bilophus
- Purple-crowned Fairy Heliothryx barroti
- Lesser Violetear Colibri cyanotus
- Black-eared Fairy Heliothryx auritus
- Mexican Violetear Colibri thalassinus
- White-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus guainumbi
- Brown Violetear Colibri delphinae
- Tepui Goldenthroat Polytmus milleri
- Sparkling Violetear Colibri coruscans
- Green-tailed Goldenthroat Polytmus theresiae
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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