White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila)

Other Names (World)
White-tipped Sicklebill, White Sicklebill, Bronze Sicklebill, Brown-tailed Sicklebill, Common Sicklebill

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
14.80 - 15.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bourcier, 1847)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. Also subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 2,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) [XC250843]
by Mitch Lysinger from Zamora-Chinchipe: Reserva Tapichalaca, near Q. Cristopher Parson, Ecuador (song)

White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) [XC126759]
by Niels Krabbe from Sector Colibr\u00ed, Cordillera del C\u00f3ndor (Zamora Chinchipe), Ecuador (song)

Subspecies
Populations of eastern Panama and western Colombia sometimes separated as subspecies munda, but morphological differences are based on a zone of character introgression between subspecies salvini and heterura.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

salvini Gould, 1868 - Costa Rica to western Colombia.
heterurus Gould, 1868 - Western Andes from south-western Colombia to western Ecuador.
aquila (Bourcier, 1847) - Eastern Andes from Colombia to northern Peru.

References
See References.

Files:

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