White-browed Hermit

Phaethornis stuarti Hartert, EJO, 1897

Spanish: Ermitaño Boliviano

The White-browed Hermit (Phaethornis stuarti) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae (hermits). It weighs about 2.9 g and its bill is 26.3 mm long. It lives in Peru and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

2.9 g, about 3 paperclips

Bill

26.3 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 Phaethornithinae hermits
3. Genus Phaethornis hermits

What Phaethornis share: Long, curved bills and long central tail feathers, often white-tipped. Males gather in leks to sing.

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Peru
• Bolivia

Others in the genus Phaethornis

• Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber
• Buff-bellied Hermit Phaethornis subochraceus
• Gray-chinned Hermit Phaethornis griseogularis
• Sooty-capped Hermit Phaethornis augusti
• Stripe-throated Hermit Phaethornis striigularis
• Planalto Hermit Phaethornis pretrei
• Black-throated Hermit Phaethornis atrimentalis
• Scale-throated Hermit Phaethornis eurynome
• Cinnamon-throated Hermit Phaethornis nattereri
• Minute Hermit Phaethornis idaliae

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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