Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Polyonymus
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Bronze-tailed Comet Polyonymus caroli

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick
Version: 1.0 — Published November 14, 2014

Sounds and Vocal Behavior

Vocalizations

The foraging call of Bronze-tailed Comet is "a dry, rapid chatter: tcht or tchtcht" (Lane, in Schulenberg et al. 2010). A possible song is a short trill that rises in pitch and then descends, the rate also slowing towards the end.

For a representative audio recording with sonogram, see audio

There are very few audio recordings of Bronze-tailed Comet; additional audio recordings can be heard at xeno-canto and at Internet Bird Collection.

Nonvocal Sounds

None reported.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2014). Bronze-tailed Comet (Polyonymus caroli), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.brtcom1.01