Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy), photo 4 — Photo: Pat Hall · CC BY 4.0

Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy), photo 5 — Photo: Daniel Ghyselinck · CC BY 4.0

What the Green Hermit sounds like

Sonogram of the Green Hermit: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song, lek song · Napo: Napo Galeras, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Flight call · Zamora-Chinchipe: between Chito and Laurel, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

It is 13.5 cm (5.3 in) long and weighs 6.3 g (0.22 oz). The male is mainly dark green with a blue-green rump. It has a dark mask through the eye, with buff stripes above and below this, and down the centre of the throat. The central feathers of the tapered tail are—for large hermit—relatively short and white-tipped, and are wiggled in display at the communal leks. The reddish bill is long and decurved. The female is sooty gray (rather than green) below, with an even longer bill and a much longer tail. The call of this species is a loud zurk, and the males' lekking "song" is a repeated swark.

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When to see the Green Hermit

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Green Hermit

Regular range

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Colombia Panama Ecuador Trinidad & Tobago Peru Venezuela

About the Green Hermit

The green hermit is a large hummingbird that is a resident breeder from southern Central America south to northern South America

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Easily confused with

Long-billed HermitPhaethornis longirostrisThe long-billed hermit is 13 to 16 cm (5.1 to 6.3 in) long.

Stripe-throated HermitPhaethornis striigularisThe stripe-throated hermit is a species of hummingbird from Central America and north-western South America.

Planalto HermitPhaethornis pretreiThe planalto hermit is about 14 to 16.5 cm (5.5 to 6.5 in) long.

Side by side: Green Hermit vs Long-billed Hermit · Green Hermit vs Planalto Hermit

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