Kolibri (Hummingbirds)
Booted Racket-tail
Ocreatus underwoodii
- langka
- 56 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Tiny Andean hummingbird with fluffy white leg puffs and two bare wire tail-shafts ending in blue-black disc tips.
- Populasi
- Not numerically quantified; described as "fairly common" overall, with a currently decreasing population trend (tree cover loss ~2.3% over the past decade within range, suggesting a possible 1-19% decline)
- Habitat
- Humid montane/cloud forest edges, secondary growth, and clearings in the Andes, mainly at 850–3,000 m elevation (occasionally 600–4,000 m); high forest dependency, classified as an altitudinal migrant
- Fakta menarik
- Adult male Booted Racket-tails carry a pair of elongated, bare-shafted tail feathers tipped with oval "rackets" and fluffy white or rufous-buff leg feathers ("boots") — a combination of ornaments found in no other hummingbird genus.
- Sebaran
- Andean South America: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia (extent of occurrence ~3.64 million km², reflecting lumped taxonomy)
- Makanan
- Nectar from small tubular (often red) flowers, supplemented with small insects and spiders caught by hawking, especially during breeding for protein
- Ukuran
- 0,14 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
