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White-throated Mountain-gem
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White-throated Mountain-gem

Lampornis castaneoventris (Gould, 1851)

Spanish: Colibrí Ventricastaño · IOC: White-throated mountaingem

The White-throated Mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems). It weighs about 5.1 g and its bill is 23.5 mm long. It lives in Costa Rica and Panama. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
5.1 g, about 5 paperclips
Bill
23.5 mm
Lives in
Forest
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Lampornithini mountain gems
  4. Genus Lampornis mountain-gems

What Lampornis share: Live in highland forests from the southwestern United States to Panama.

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Lampornis

Sources

Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), IOC World Bird List. 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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