Birds of the World - Campylopterus

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Outcrop Sabrewing (Campylopterus calcirupicola) Vulnerable Range: SA: e Brazil

A new species with only subtle tail differences to the Grey-breasted Sabrewing. Only found in dry forest in eastern Brazil, and also called Dry-forest Sabrewing.

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Diamantina Sabrewing (Campylopterus diamantinensis) Near Threatened Range: SA: se Brazil


Buff-breasted Sabrewing (Campylopterus duidae) Range: SA: tepuis Venezuela
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com © All Rights Reserved.


White-tailed Sabrewing (Campylopterus ensipennis) Near Threatened Range: SA: ne Venezuela and Tobago Tobago
Photograph by Rainbirder (Steve Garvie) Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. 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 only under a license identical to this one.


Lazuline Sabrewing (Campylopterus falcatus) Male Range: SA: ne Venezuela to ne Ecuador ProAves El Dorado Reserve, Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Magdalena, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Lazuline Sabrewing (Campylopterus falcatus) Female/Immature Range: SA: ne Venezuela to ne Ecuador La Azulita, Venezuela
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Violet Sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) Male Range: MA: s Mexico to Panama Guadalupe, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Violet Sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus mellitus) Female Range: MA: s Mexico to Panama Guadalupe, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

A large hummingbird.


Rufous-breasted Sabrewing (Campylopterus hyperythrus) Male Range: SA: tepuis La Escalera, Canaima NP, Venesuel
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Found in tepuis. Male and female alike.


Grey-breasted Sabrewing (Campylopterus largipennis) Range: SA: Amazonia Manu, Peru
Photograph by Joel N. Rosenthal © All Rights Reserved.

A large agressive hummingbird. Male and female alike.
Front view showing white on inside of tail.


Santa Marta Sabrewing (Campylopterus phainopeplus) Critically Endangered Range: SA: ne Colombia Santa Marta Sierra Nevada, Colombia
Photograph by Jaider Carrillo Tarazona © All Rights Reserved.

Rare. Believed to migrate between altitudes. Female similar to female White-vented Plumeleteer but with a more curved bill. Male has a blue throat.


Napo Sabrewing (Campylopterus villaviscensio) Male Range: SA: s Colombia to ne Peru Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Napo Sabrewing (Campylopterus villaviscensio) Female Range: SA: s Colombia to ne Peru Wildsumaco Lodge, Sumaco, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Female similar to Grey-breasted Sabrewing, but bill longer and straighter, and only the very tail tips might have white.