Booted racket-tail
| Booted racket-tail | |
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| Male white-booted racket-tail | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheini |
| Genus: | Ocreatus Gould, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus addae[1] Bourcier, 1846
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| Distribution of the genus Ocreatus in green | |
The booted racket-tails are a small group of
Maritime Andes. They are relatively small (even compared to most other hummingbirds) and primarily iridescent green with white or rufous-buff leg-puffs ("boots"). The leg-puffs are more conspicuous in males, which also have a pair of dark bluish racket-shaped extensions to the tail.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus Ocreatus was described by
International Ornithological Union, with more data required for the species status of Anna's racket-tail (annae), which they instead regard as a subspecies of O. addae.[3] The American Ornithological Society
has yet to recognize the split and continue to place all in a single widespread species.
Species
The genus contains three species:[4]
| Male | Female | Common name | Name | Distribution |
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Peruvian racket-tail | Ocreatus peruanus | eastern Ecuador and northern Peru |
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Rufous-booted racket-tail | Ocreatus addae | southern Peru (annae) and Bolivia (addae) | |
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White-booted racket-tail | Ocreatus underwoodii | northwestern Venezuela, Colombia and western Ecuador |
References
- ^ "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ PMID 27988640.
- ^ "Proposed Splits/Lumps « IOC World Bird List".
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
See also
- Marvelous spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis) - another Andean hummingbird with a somewhat similar tail
- Racket-tailed coquette (Discosura longicaudus) - a hummingbird of northeastern and eastern South America with a somewhat similar tail