Hook-billed Hermit

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Photo © by Xyko Paludo
Boa Nova, BA, Brazil, January 2019

Glaucis dohrnii

[edit] Identification

12–13 cm (4¾-5¼ in)

• Greenish-bronze upperparts
• Cinnamon underparts
• White supercilium and malar
• Metallic bronze tail with outer rectrices tipped white
• Bill almost straight whitish mandible.

[edit] Similar Species

Similar to Rufous-breasted Hermit

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in coastal south-eastern Brazil (Bahia and Espírito Santo).

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1], which in the past has been placed in genus Ramphodon.

[edit] Habitat

Found in the understorey of damp lowland primary and littoral forests. Generally under 500m.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

Their main diet consists of nectar and arthropods. They feed by the trap-lining method.

[edit] Breeding

They are reported to breed from September to February.

[edit] References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved February 2019)

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