Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy)

Other Names (World)
Green Hermit, Guy's Hermit, White-tailed Hermit

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1833)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 800 - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) [XC742223]
by Albert Lastukhin from Hotel Tinam\u00fa Birding Nature Reserve, Colombia (call)

Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) [XC257790]
by Peter Boesman from Napo: 3 km NW Guagua Sumaco, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls, wing noise)

Subspecies
Subspecies emiliae has often been merged into apicalis. Species name frequently emended to "guyi", but this is unjustified.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

coruscus Bangs, 1902 - Costa Rica to north-western Colombia.
emiliae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) - Colombia (major river valleys).
apicalis (Tschudi, 1844) - Eastern Andean slopes from northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela to south-eastern Peru.
guy (Lesson, 1833) - Trinidad and north-eastern Venezuela.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) - 10 files

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