- Leucippus baeri
Identification
9-10 cm
- Straight or slightly decurved, blackish bill
- Light golden green upperparts with dark grey bordered feathers
- Pale cinnamon to greyish-coloured underparts, becoming whitish towards belly
- Light green tail, inner rectrices with bronzish tips, outer rectrices with dusky grey subterminal band and whitish terminal patch
Sexes similar but femals with more greyish tips in outer rectrices. Immature plumage not described.
Distribution
Extreme southwest Ecuador (Loja) and northwest Peru (Tumbes, Piura, N Lambayeque).
A restricted-range species, fairly common in littoral region.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
Habitat
Dry forests and dry shrubland. Occurs from sea-level up to 1300 m.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on nectar in xerophytic vegetation like cacti. Also takes small insects.
Breeding
Nothing known.
Movements
Presumably a sedentary species.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Tumbes Hummingbird. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 14 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Tumbes_Hummingbird
