Endangered
Grey-bellied comet
Taphrolesbia griseiventris
Grey-bellied comet is a bird in the family Trochilidae (order Apodiformes) — Taphrolesbia griseiventris, recorded as Endangered and tied to Peru.
Appearance
The grey-bellied comet is a large hummingbird with a long beak and a deeply forked tail, growing to 14 to 17 centimetres (5.5 to 6.7 in). The upperparts are bronzy-green and the long green tail feathers have orangeish tips. The underparts are grey and the male has a blue throat.
Range and habitat
The grey-bellied comet has a limited range that contributes to its currently being endangered. The bird has been found living in five separate, but close sites in north central Peru in the Andes mountains. The grey-bellied comet inhabits areas of steep, rocky, and dry slopes with some vegetation.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss. Estimates in 2012 for the grey-bellied comet put the population at around 375 to 1,499 individual birds. Habitat modification and loss are the largest contributing factor to the species declining population.
The IUCN has listed the bird as being "Endangered".
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Grey-bellied comet is 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 Grey-bellied comet, Wikidata item Q249974. 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.
