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White-tailed Goldenthroat
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White-tailed Goldenthroat

Polytmus guainumbi (Pallas, 1764)

Spanish: Colibrí Guainumbí

The White-tailed Goldenthroat (Polytmus guainumbi) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae (mangoes). It weighs about 5.2 g and its bill is 25.2 mm long. It lives in 11 countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Bolivia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern.

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At a glance

Weight
5.2 g, about 5 paperclips
Bill
25.2 mm
Lives in
Grassland
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Polytminae mangoes
  3. Genus Polytmus goldenthroats

Where it lives · 11 countries

Others in the genus Polytmus

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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