Santa Marta sabrewing

Appearance

Both sexes have a decurved black bill, with the female's having more curvature, and both have a white spot behind the eye. Males' upperparts are glittering emerald green. The female has shining green upperparts and mostly grayish white underparts with green flanks and undertail coverts.

The Santa Marta sabrewing is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long.

Range and habitat

Because it is far from Santa Marta, and it is endemic to the most important basin in department of Cesar, a proposal to change its English standard name to Guatapurí sabrewing is being discussed. It inhabits the edges of humid forest, plantations (especially of bananas), and bushy páramo. In elevation it ranges from 1,200 to 2,400 m (3,900 to 7,900 ft).

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet and breeding

Almost nothing is known about the Santa Marta sabrewing's feeding strategy or diet. Santa Marta sabrewings in breeding condition have been found between April and June, and males have been seen displaying in June and July.

Nothing else is known about the species' breeding phenology and its nest has not been described.

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Santa Marta sabrewing is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Santa Marta sabrewing, Wikidata item Q1265085. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.