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Fiery-tailed Awlbill

Avocettula recurvirostris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernNectarForestCup nestTiny · 4 g
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 1
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 2
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 3
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 4
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 5
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 6
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 7
Photo: Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris), photo 8
Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The fiery-tailed awlbill is 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 4.3 g (0.15 oz). Its unique bill is short with a dramatically upturned tip. The adult male has green upperparts. Its throat is shiny emerald green and the belly shiny emerald green with a black center. The top of the tail is violet but for all-green central feathers. The adult female also has green upperparts. Its underparts are white with a black stripe down the middle. Its tail is bluish black and the outer feathers have white tips. Voice: The fiery-tailed awlbill's song has not been recorded. Its call is "a series of 'tsik' notes" and is given in flight or while hovering.

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When to see the Fiery-tailed Awlbill

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

Where to see the Fiery-tailed Awlbill

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil Colombia Guyana French Guiana

Recorded as a rare visitor in Ecuador, France.

About the Fiery-tailed Awlbill

The fiery-tailed awlbill is a species of hummingbird in the subfamily Polytminae, the mangoes. It is found in Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

Neblina MetaltailMetallura odomaeThe neblina metaltail is 9 to 10.5 cm (3.5 to 4.1 in) long. Outcrop SabrewingCampylopterus calcirupicolaThe outcrop sabrewing is very similar to its "parents", the grey-breasted and especially the Diamantina sabrewings. Humboldt's Sapphire (Chrysuronia humboldtii) Humboldt's SapphireChrysuronia humboldtiiHumboldt's sapphire is 9 to 12.5 cm (3.5 to 4.9 in) long.

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