White-tailed Sabrewing

Campylopterus ensipennis (Swainson, 1822)

Spanish: Colibrí Coliblanco

The White-tailed Sabrewing (Campylopterus ensipennis) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 9.6 g and its bill is 29.5 mm long. It lives in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Its IUCN Red List status is Near threatened, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight

9.6 g, about 10 paperclips

Bill

29.5 mm

Lives in

Forest

Moves

Stays put all year

Red List status

Near threatened, decreasing

Its place in the family

1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
4. Genus Campylopterus sabrewings

What Campylopterus share: Males have thickened, bent shafts on their outer wing feathers (the 'sabres').

Where it lives · 2 countries

• Trinidad and Tobago
• Venezuela

Others in the genus Campylopterus

• Santa Marta Sabrewing Campylopterus phainopeplus
• Lazuline Sabrewing Campylopterus falcatus
• Napo Sabrewing Campylopterus villaviscensio
• Buff-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus duidae
• Rufous-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus hyperythrus
• Violet Sabrewing Campylopterus hemileucurus
• Diamantina Sabrewing Campylopterus diamantinensis
• Outcrop Sabrewing Campylopterus calcirupicola
• Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis

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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