Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura) | Photos and ID

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Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Grete Pasch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Ryan F. Mandelbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Slender Sheartail (Doricha enicura), photo 8 — Photo: (c) Grete Pasch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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The male slender sheartail is 11 to 12.5 cm (4.3 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 2.3 g (0.081 oz). Females are 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long and weigh about 2.6 g (0.092 oz). Both sexes have a long, decurved, black bill and a white spot behind the eye. The male's head, upperparts, and sides of the belly are green. Its gorget is pinkish purple and the chest and center of the belly white. The very long tail is deeply forked. The central pair of feathers are green and the others blackish. The female's upperparts are green and the underparts cinnamon-buff. Voice: The slender sheartail's vocalizations are poorly known and have seldom been recorded. It does make "fairly hard, rapid chips" while perched or feeding.

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When to see the Slender Sheartail

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 Slender Sheartail

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Guatemala Mexico Honduras El Salvador

About the Slender Sheartail

The slender sheartail is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

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Easily confused with

Mexican SheartailDoricha elizaThis is a tiny bird, weighing only 2.4 to 2.6 g (0.085 to 0.092 oz).

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