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White-vented Plumeleteer
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

White-vented Plumeleteer

Chalybura buffonii (Lesson, RP, 1832)

Spanish: Colibrí de Buffon

The White-vented Plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Trochilini (emeralds). It weighs about 6.8 g and its bill is 26.7 mm long. It lives in Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.

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At a glance

Weight
6.8 g, about 7 paperclips
Bill
26.7 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 Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Trochilini emeralds
  4. Genus Chalybura plumeleteers

Where it lives · 5 countries

Others in the genus Chalybura

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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