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Pale-tailed Barbthroat

Threnetes leucurus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernNectarForestCup nestTiny · 6 g
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 1
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 2
Photo: Dan Vickers · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 3
Photo: Rajan Rao · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 4
Photo: Sebastian Doak · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 5
Photo: Sebastian Doak · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 6
Photo: Frank Dietze · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 7
Photo: Frank Dietze · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 8
Photo: Gonzalo Ganda Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 9
Photo: Gonzalo Ganda Álvarez · CC BY 4.0
Pale-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus), photo 10
Photo: Carlos Muñoz-Amezcua · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The pale-tailed barbthroat is 10 to 12.2 cm (3.9 to 4.8 in) long. Males weigh 4 to 7 g (0.14 to 0.25 oz) and females 4 to 6.5 g (0.14 to 0.23 oz). The adult male has bronze-green upperparts and breast, a dark ear patch and throat with a reddish patch below the later, and a pale malar stripe. The tail is dark with various shades and extent of color on the outer feathers. The belly is gray with ochre tints. It has a nearly straight bill. Voice: The pale-tailed barbthroat's song is "a fast high-pitched phrase of 5–10 notes repeated at intervals of several seconds". Its call is "a high-pitched sharp 'tseet', sometimes doubled."

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When to see the Pale-tailed Barbthroat

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

Where to see the Pale-tailed Barbthroat

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 1 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.

Peru Ecuador Colombia Brazil Guyana Bolivia Venezuela Suriname

Recorded as a rare visitor in French Guiana.

About the Pale-tailed Barbthroat

The pale-tailed barbthroat is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found throughout much of the Amazon Basin from the eastern Andean foothills to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Easily confused with

Sooty Barbthroat (Threnetes niger) Sooty BarbthroatThrenetes nigerThe sooty barbthroat is 10 to 12 cm (3.9 to 4.7 in) long. Band-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes ruckeri) Band-tailed BarbthroatThrenetes ruckeriThe band-tailed barbthroat is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long.

Side by side: Band-tailed Barbthroat vs Pale-tailed Barbthroat · Pale-tailed Barbthroat vs Short-tailed Woodstar

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