Steely-vented Hummingbird

Saucerottia saucerottei (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846)

Steely-vented Hummingbird, Saucerottia saucerottei, is a hummingbird of north-western South America, breeding in Colombia and Venezuela. It lives in semi-open and open country, including scrub, savanna, forest edges, secondary growth, plantations and gardens, usually in rather dry places. It is mainly a bird of low to middle elevations, though one form reaches higher ground in the Andes. The species is recognised in several subspecies, with small differences between them. It was once placed in Amazilia, but is now usually treated in Saucerottia.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

South America: nw SA