Phaethornis ruber (Linnaeus, 1758)

Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Marques de Oliveira, Uéslei, Santos do Nascimento, Sheiliane, Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas & Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, 2021, Preliminary survey of avifauna of the Estação Ecológica do Cuniã in Porto Velho, northern Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 289-310 : 298

Phaethornis ruber (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Records. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Porto Velho, Estação Ecológica de Cuniã ; first record on 26.VII.2018; captu- red with mist-nets and banded; plots T05 , T30 , R11 , R16 ; CEMAVE-A56521 .

Identification. This species is 8 cm long. Males have a black band across the breast, which in females is reduced or absent. Both sexes have a narrow black mask through the eye, bordered above with a rufous stripe. The bill is long, slightly decurved, and with a yellow lower mandible. The tapered tail feathers have whitish-buff tips.