Birds of Brazil - Phaethornis

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Tapajos Hermit (Phaethornis aethopygus) Vulnerable ENDEMIC


Black-throated Hermit (Phaethornis atrimentalis riojae) Waqanki Lodge, San Martín, Peru
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Sooty-capped Hermit (Phaethornis augusti) La Azulita, Venezuela
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Straight-billed Hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri bourcieri) Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia Note pale belly and long straight bill.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Scale-throated Hermit (Phaethornis eurynome) Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Compare to Planalto Hermit.


Grey-chinned Hermit (Phaethornis griseogularis) Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn © All Rights Reserved.


Grey-chinned Hermit (Phaethornis griseogularis griseogularis) Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Note small size.


White-bearded Hermit (Phaethornis hispidus) Puerto Maldonado, Peru
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Minute Hermit (Phaethornis idaliae) ENDEMIC Cabo Frio, Brazil
Photograph by Nigel Voaden © All Rights Reserved.


Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus) French Guiana
Photograph by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE © All Rights Reserved.


Great-billed Hermit (Phaethornis malaris bolivianus) Los Amigos Biological Station, Peru
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

A large hermit, the Amazon version of Long-billed Hermit, with no overlap. Also similar to Long-tailed Hermit but that species has a 'gular stripe' from chin to neck (HBW).
Bird at active net with two white eggs.


Cinnamon-throated Hermit (Phaethornis nattereri) Chapada, Brazil
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.


Needle-billed Hermit (Phaethornis philippii) Esperanza, Pando, Bolivia
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.


Needle-billed Hermit (Phaethornis philippii) Piedritas, Pando, Bolivia
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

Note long straight bill and rufous chest/belly.


Planalto Hermit (Phaethornis pretrei) Piraju-SP, Brazil
Photograph by Dario Sanches Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Reddish Hermit (Phaethornis ruber) Manu National Park, Peru
Photograph by Joao Quental Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Streak-throated Hermit (Phaethornis rupurumii amazonicus) Anavilhanas Islands, Novo Airão, Amazonas, Brazil
Photograph by Hector Bottai Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.


Dusky-throated Hermit (Phaethornis squalidus) ENDEMIC Intervales, São Paulo, Brazil
Photograph by Matt Grube © All Rights Reserved.


Buff-bellied Hermit (Phaethornis subochraceus) Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.


Long-tailed Hermit (Phaethornis superciliosus muelleri) Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Brazil
Photograph by Joe Tobias © All Rights Reserved.

Note 'gular stripe' (from chin to neck) and ochraceous bands on uppertail coverts (rump) when comparing to very similar Great-billed Hermit (HBW).