Sword-billed Hummingbird - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Bananafishbones
Colombia, May 2015

Identification

17–22·8 cm (6¾-9 in) including length of bill at 9-11 cm
It is the only species of bird to have a bill longer than the rest of its body.

Female
Photo by Stanley Jones
Owlet Lodge, Reserva Abra Patricia, Peru, January 2017

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Temperate montane forest edges and gardens. Observed at heights between 2100 and 4000 m.

The diet consists the nectar of flowers (generally though not exclusively) with long corollas.

There is very little information available. It's possible they nest high in trees.

Male
Photo by Stanley Jones
Guango Lodge, Ecuador, December 2007

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved April 2017)
Wikipedia
BF Member observations

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Sword-billed Hummingbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Sword-billed_Hummingbird

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