Rufous-booted Racket-tail vs Tapajos Hermit

Ocreatus addae verglichen mit Phaethornis aethopygus

Side-by-Side Comparison

Merkmal Rufous-booted Racket-tail Tapajos Hermit
Wissenschaftlicher Name Ocreatus addae Phaethornis aethopygus
Ordnung Caprimulgiformes Caprimulgiformes
Familie Trochilidae Trochilidae
Erhaltungsstatus Not Evaluated Vulnerable
Länge
Flügelspannweite 8,2 cm (3.2 in)
Gewicht 3,0 g (0.11 oz) 3,0 g (0.11 oz)
Ernährung Nectarivore of Bolivian and Peruvian cloud forest; visits Ericaceae and bromeliads. Gleans small insects from … Nectar generalist visiting a wide range of forest flowers; also catches small arthropods by aerial …
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Habitat Comparison

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Song & Call Comparison

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Gesang

Deep, resonant hum barely audible; extremely low vibration barely perceptible during hovering near high-altitude flowers.

Tapajos Hermit

Gesang

Rapid, bubbling series of soft notes; pleasant liquid twittering reminiscent of water over pebbles in a shallow stream.

Geographic Range & Migration

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Found in cloud forests of northern Bolivia and adjacent Peru and Brazil at 400–1,400 m elevation.

Tapajos Hermit

Found in the Amazon basin in Brazil, primarily along the Tapajós River and its tributaries. Resident in humid lowland forest undergrowth.

Erhaltungsstatus

Not Evaluated

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Vulnerable

Tapajos Hermit

How to Tell Them Apart

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Tapajos Hermit

Gefieder

Small hermit; bronze-green upperparts with orange-buff rump; pale buff underparts with faint streaking; pale supercilium; white-tipped elongated central tail feathers; Amazonian species recently split; orange-buff rump distinctive among small hermits.

About These Birds

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

A small hummingbird (8-10 cm plus tail rackets) found in Andean cloud forests of southeastern Peru and Bolivia at 1,200-2,200 m. Males have rufous leg puffs instead of white. Recently split from Booted Racket-tail. Nectarivore of montane forest undergrowth.

Tapajos Hermit

A small hermit hummingbird (10-11 cm) found along the Tapajós River basin in central Brazil. Green plumage with rufous underparts. Nectarivore of forest undergrowth. Recently described as a species distinct from other Phaethornis hermits based on vocal and plumage differences.

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