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The Booted Racket-tail, *Ocreatus underwoodii*, is a vibrant hummingbird species found in the Andes Mountains of South America. Its striking appearance includes iridescent plumage and exceptionally long, racket-shaped tail feathers—a feature unique among hummingbirds. Primarily observed in Ecuador a...
The Racket-tailed Coquette is a diminutive hummingbird species native to southeastern South America. It’s notable for the dramatically enlarged, racket-like tails of its males, used in courtship displays. These vibrant birds are primarily found within Guianan and Amazonian habitats. Ornithologists a...
The Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura) is a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae, native to Guatemala and southern Mexico. The species is named for the male's exceptionally long, deeply forked tail, which is dramatically longer than that of the female and represents one of the more extreme example...
The Peruvian Sheartail (Thaumastura cora) is a hummingbird endemic to coastal Peru and extreme northern Chile. The male is notable for its exceptionally long, wire-like outer tail feathers that extend well beyond the body, along with a rose-purple throat, while females have a shorter, graduated tail...
The sparkling-tailed hummingbird, Tilmatura dupontii, is a small hummingbird found in highland habitats from Mexico through parts of Central America to Nicaragua. It occurs in forest edges, open woodland, scrub, and other montane vegetation where it feeds on nectar and captures small arthropods. Adu...
The Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza) is a small hummingbird endemic to Mexico, with populations associated with the Yucatán Peninsula and a separate area in Veracruz. Adult males have an elongated, deeply forked tail and an iridescent rose-purple throat, while females have much shorter tails and pa...
The Beautiful Hummingbird (Calothorax pulcher) is a small species endemic to the arid highlands of Oaxaca and Guerrero states in southern Mexico.
