White-booted Racket-tail

Ocreatus underwoodii (Lesson, RP, 1832)

White-booted Racket-tail, Ocreatus underwoodii, is a hummingbird of the Andes in South America, breeding from northern Venezuela to western Ecuador. It lives in temperate and subtropical mountain country, especially along the edges of damp to wet forest, though it also uses the forest interior and more open secondary growth. It is most often recorded between 1,600 and 2,200 m, but can occur from 600 m up to 4,000 m. The male has long outer tail feathers with bare shafts and oval tips, while both sexes show white leg puffs and greenish upperparts.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

South America: n Venezuela to w Ecuador