White-booted Racket-tail

Ocreatus underwoodii (Lesson, RP, 1832)

Spanish: Colibrí de Raquetas Faldiblanco

The White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Lesbiinae (coquettes and brilliants), tribe Heliantheini (brilliants). It weighs about 3.0 g and its bill is 17.6 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight

3.0 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

17.6 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Least concern

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Lesbiinae coquettes and brilliants
3. Tribe Heliantheini brilliants
4. Genus Ocreatus racket-tails

What Ocreatus share: Males' outer tail feathers end in rackets, and the legs have puffy feathers ('boots').

Where it lives · 3 countries

• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Ocreatus

• Peruvian Racket-tail Ocreatus peruanus
• Rufous-booted Racket-tail Ocreatus addae

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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