Buff-tailed Sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini) | Photos and ID

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Buff-tailed Sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini), photo 3 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

Buff-tailed Sicklebill (Eutoxeres condamini), photo 6 — Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

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With a total length of 5–6 in (13–15 cm) and weighing 0.28–0.44 oz (7.9–12.5 g), it is a relatively large hummingbird. Males and females are virtually identical, differing only in size (especially wing measurements), with the females being some 20% smaller. Its upperparts are iridescent dull greenish, while the underparts are whitish, densely streaked with dusky. The neck-side has a relatively faint blue patch. The tips of the rectrices (tail feathers) are white, and there is a naked stripe on top of the head (but this is usually concealed).

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When to see the Buff-tailed Sicklebill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-tailed Sicklebill

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador Colombia

About the Buff-tailed Sicklebill

The buff-tailed sicklebill is a species of hermit hummingbird from the lower Andes and adjacent west Amazonian lowlands from southern Colombia and northern Ecuador to Peru and Bolivia.

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Easily confused with

White-tipped SicklebillEutoxeres aquilaThe white-tipped sicklebill's most prominent feature is its strongly decurved bill that arcs through a quarter circle; the maxilla is jello and the mandible yellow.

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