White-bellied Woodstar
Chaetocercus mulsant (Bourcier, 1843)
Spanish: Colibrí de Mulsant
The White-bellied Woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.9 g and its bill is 21.0 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 3.9 g, about 4 paperclips
- Bill
- 21.0 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Chaetocercus woodstars
What Chaetocercus share: Among the smallest birds in the world.
Where it lives · 4 countries
Others in the genus Chaetocercus
- Little Woodstar Chaetocercus bombus
- Gorgeted Woodstar Chaetocercus heliodor
- Santa Marta Woodstar Chaetocercus astreans
- Esmeraldas Woodstar Chaetocercus berlepschi
- Rufous-shafted Woodstar Chaetocercus jourdanii
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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