Booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii)

Other Names (World)
Booted Racquet-tail, Booted Racket-tail, Racquet-tail, Racquet-tailed Hummingbird, White-booted Racket-tail

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
8.70 - 13.20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1832)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 1,050 - 3,000 m, occasionally 600 - 4,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) [XC530775]
by Jerome Fischer from Ukuku Rural Lodge, Juntas, Ibague, Tolima, Colombia @ (4.5585,-75.3275), Colombia (call)

White-booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) [XC529543]
by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Bremen, bosque entresacado y secundarios, Colombia (?)

Subspecies
Based on display patterns, genus is closely related to Urosticte, Eriocnemis and Haplophaedia. Rufous-booted subspecies addae, annae and peruanus sometimes considered to constitute one to three separate species.

Proposed subspecies ambiguus is synonymous with incommodus.

The following 8 subspecies are recognised:

polystictus Todd, 1942 - Coastal mountains of northern Venezuela (Carabobo to Miranda).
discifer (Heine, 1863) - North-western Venezuela (Zulia and Falcón to Táchira and western Barinas) and north-eastern Colombia (Norte de Santander).
underwoodii (Lesson, 1832) - Eastern Andes of Colombia.
incommodus (Kleinschmidt, O, 1943) - Western and central Andes of Colombia.
melanantherus (Jardine, 1851) - Both slopes of Andes of Ecuador.
peruanus (Gould, 1849) - Eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru.
annae (Berlepsch and Stolzmann, 1894) - Central and southern Peru. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).
addae (Bourcier, 1846) - Bolivia (Yungas of La Paz to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Rufous-booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus addae).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Booted Racquet-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) - 10 files

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