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Species
Least ConcernSwallow-tailed Hummingbird
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderApodiformes
- FamilyTrochilidae
Observations5,349
Observations recorded149,548
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 280
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, LSUMZ, WFVZ, FMNH, CLO, UWZM
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Brazil
Bird sounds
- call· Brazil· quality A
- call· Bolivia· quality A
- song· Brazil· quality A
- call· Brazil· quality A
via Xeno-canto
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The swallow-tailed hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura) is a species in the hummingbird family (Trochilidae), found mainly in east-central South America. Most authorities place it in the genus Eupetomena, although some place it in Campylopterus based on song and the thick shafts of the males' first primaries. Its common name and specific epithet (which means "large-tailed") both refer to the long, deeply forked, somewhat swallow-like tail.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eupetomena macroura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.