Sword-billed Hummingbird
Ensifera ensifera(Boissonneau, A, 1840)
English (US) Sword-billed Hummingbird
The Sword-billed Hummingbird (Ensifera ensifera) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: Andes of western Venezuela to northeastern BoliviaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ensifera ensifera
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sword-billed Hummingbird
- Described by
- (Boissonneau, A, 1840)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ornismya ensifera
- Described by
- (Boissonneau, A, 1840)
- Type locality
- Bogota, Colombia.
- Original description
- Revue Zoologique, par la Société Cuvierienne 2(1839) p.354
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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