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Broad-tipped Hermit
Anopetia gounellei (Boucard, 1891)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Broad-tipped Hermit, Anopetia gounellei, is a hummingbird of eastern Brazil, where it breeds in the north-east of the country. It is the only species in the genus Anopetia and has no recognised subspecies. The bird is found from Ceará south to western Bahia and north-eastern Minas Gerais, mainly in fairly moist caatinga with thick growth under shrubs and trees, but also in more open cerrado. It is a small hermit hummingbird with a bill whose upper part is broad and overlaps the lower.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: e Brazil
