Birds of Bolivia

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Chaetocercus (1 species, 6 worldwide)

Genus Chaetocercus are 'woodstars', which are tiny hummingbirds that resemble a large bumblebee when flying.


White-bellied Woodstar
White-bellied Woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant) Male
Guango Lodge, Ecuador
  White belly and altitude distinctive.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

White-bellied Woodstar
White-bellied Woodstar (Chaetocercus mulsant) Female
ProAves Dusky Starfrontlet Reserve, Urrao, Antioquia, Colombia
  Note white in throat and belly on female.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Large for a tiny woodstar, and found where it is cold, over 2500 m. (but much lower in Peru).
A bad photo that shows how woodstars lift their tail up and down to hover.
Good female flight shot.


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