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) [XC260458]
by Jonas Nilsson from Napo: Narupa, Ecuador (song)

White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) [XC238260]
by Nick Athanas from Napo: km 3 Narupa-Loreto road, 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
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Files:

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