White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) [XC98063]
by Mitch Lysinger from Wildsumaco, 5km NW Guagua Sumaco, Napo, Ecuador (song)
White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) [XC261709]
by Johan Chaves from Esmeraldas: Playa de Oro, village and vicinity, R\u00edo Santiago, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls, wing noise)
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.