Wedge-tailed Hillstar
Oreotrochilus adela (d'Orbigny, 1838)
Spanish: Colibrí de Cochabamba
The Wedge-tailed Hillstar (Oreotrochilus adela) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Lesbiini (coquettes). It weighs about 7.9 g and its bill is 32.3 mm long. It lives in Argentina and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.9 g, about 8 paperclips
- Bill
- 32.3 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Some populations migrate
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
- Tribe Lesbiini coquettes
- Genus Oreotrochilus hillstars
What Oreotrochilus share: Live high in the Andes, up to the snow line, and can drop into torpor on cold nights.
Where it lives · 2 countries
Others in the genus Oreotrochilus
- White-sided Hillstar Oreotrochilus leucopleurus
- Andean Hillstar Oreotrochilus estella
- Black-breasted Hillstar Oreotrochilus melanogaster
- Green-headed Hillstar Oreotrochilus stolzmanni
- Blue-throated Hillstar Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus
- Ecuadorian Hillstar Oreotrochilus chimborazo
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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