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Violet-tailed Sylph
Photo: Michael Woodruff from Spokane, Washington, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Violet-tailed Sylph

Aglaiocercus coelestis (Gould, 1861)

Spanish: Silfo Celeste

The Violet-tailed Sylph (Aglaiocercus coelestis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 5.6 g and its bill is 18.5 mm long. It lives in Ecuador and Colombia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
5.6 g, about 6 paperclips
Bill
18.5 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 Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
  3. Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
  4. Genus Aglaiocercus sylphs

What Aglaiocercus share: Males have very long, iridescent tails.

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Aglaiocercus

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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