Scissor-tailed Hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
11.50 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1873

Habitat
Lower and upper montane humid forest. From 530 - 1,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Venezuela (B) (NB).

Paria Peninsula (north-eastern Venezuela).

Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 19,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status EN
Habitat destruction and degradation through conversion to agriculture and clearing of understorey is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A thin, high metallic chittering.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Scissor-tailed Hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca) [XC224288]
by id from Paria peninsula hills, Sucre, Venezuela (song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Heliodoxa.

No subspecies.

Similar Species
Male Venezuelan Sylph (Aglaiocercus berlepschi) is smaller with short, straight bill.

References
See References.

Files:

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