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 LC    Sword-billed Hummingbird* Id (Atlas):
    Ensifera ensifera

Description (10)
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Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
13 - 14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boissonneau, 1839)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist montane forest. From 1,700 - 3,500 m, occasionally up to 3,600 m.

Range (Guide)
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Andes from western Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru to north-eastern Bolivia.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
(Ensifera ensifera) [XC260507]
     by id from Loja: Cajanuma, Ecuador (call, foraging calls)

 
Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) [XC578584]
     by Jerome Fischer from Ibagu\u00e9, Tolima, Colombia (flight call)

Subspecies
Closely related to Coeligena and may even belong in that genus.

Proposed subspecies caerulescens, known from a single specimen of unknown origin, is apparently not valid, as morphological differences are most likely aberrant and may even relate to a damaged skin.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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