Birds of Venezuela - Saucerottia


Copper-tailed Hummingbird (Saucerottia cupreicauda cupreicauda) Immature Male Iwokrama Forest, Potaro-Siparuni region, Guyana
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Steely-vented Hummingbird (Saucerottia saucerottei) ProAves Tangaras Reserve, El Carmen de Atrato, Choco, Colombia Note vent (undertail) pattern.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Steely-vented Hummingbird (Saucerottia saucerottei) Chinchiná, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

An Andean hummingbird, usually found from 1000-2000m, but may go lower to confuse birders with other similar species. Overall green with a bluish tail and greyish patterned vent. Similar to Emerald hummingbirds, but emeralds have a green vent, and are usually slightly smaller. Compare also to Shining-green Hummingbird.
In flight.


Copper-rumped Hummingbird (Saucerottia tobaci erythronotos) Trinidad
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Green-bellied Hummingbird (Saucerottia viridigaster) Monterredondo, Colombia The blue-tailed race found in the foothills of Colombia and Venezuela, now split from the Copper-tailed Hummingbird.
Photograph by Manakin Nature Tours - Luis Urueña © All Rights Reserved.

Also called Copper-tailed Hummingbird because of the tail color of the races in the mountains of Guyana and eastern Venezuela. Only viridigaster in Colombia and west Venezuela has a blue and not copper tail.
Alt. photo from front