White-tailed Sabrewing vs Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

Campylopterus ensipennis ile kıyaslandığında Nesophlox lyrura

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Özellik White-tailed Sabrewing Lyre-tailed Hummingbird
Bilimsel Ad Campylopterus ensipennis Nesophlox lyrura
Takım Caprimulgiformes Caprimulgiformes
Familya Trochilidae Trochilidae
Koruma Durumu Near Threatened Least Concern
Uzunluk
Kanat Açıklığı 15,2 cm (6.0 in) 8,0 cm (3.1 in)
Ağırlık 9,866666666666667 g (0.35 oz) 2,425 g (0.09 oz)
Beslenme Feeds on nectar from highland forest flowers in Venezuela. Supplements diet with insects and spiders … Nectarivore probing tubular flowers in humid forest. Supplements nectar diet with small insects and spiders …
Kuluçka Büyüklüğü 2 2
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Ortak Yaşam Alanları

White-tailed Sabrewing only

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Lyre-tailed Hummingbird only

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Song & Call Comparison

White-tailed Sabrewing

Şarkı

Rough, buzzy chatter with energetic rhythm; coarse notes delivered rapidly with raw buzzy texture from perch.

Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

Şarkı

Sharp, emphatic chip note with metallic quality; single clean staccato sound repeated at measured intervals.

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Geographic Range & Migration

White-tailed Sabrewing

Found in northeastern Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. Resident in humid forest undergrowth.

Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

Endemic to Jamaica. Resident in forests and gardens across the island from lowlands to highlands.

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Koruma Durumu

Near Threatened

White-tailed Sabrewing

Least Concern

Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

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How to Tell Them Apart

White-tailed Sabrewing

Tuy

Ross's Turaco: brilliant purple-blue body with yellow facial skin and bill; crimson flight feathers; long graduated tail; unique colors

Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

Tuy

Mexican Woodnymph: males with glittering violet gorget; metallic green above; white flanks; females green above; spotted white below

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About These Birds

White-tailed Sabrewing

A large hummingbird (12-13 cm) found in humid forests of northeastern Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. Green plumage with white outer tail feathers. Nectarivore of forest undergrowth. Classified as Near Threatened in Venezuela; common on Trinidad and Tobago.

Lyre-tailed Hummingbird

A small hummingbird (10-11 cm) endemic to Jamaica. Males have a deeply forked, lyre-shaped tail. Green plumage. Nectarivore of forest and garden flowers. Recently split from Bahama Woodstar. A Jamaican near-endemic.

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