Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Leucippus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick
Version: 1.0 — Published February 15, 2015

Conservation

Spot-throated Hummingbird has a very large geographic range and, although the population trend is not known, the IUCN Red List conservation status of this species is evaluated as Least Concern (BirdLife International 2015). Spot-throated Hummingbird is included in Appendix II of CITES, as is the case with all hummingbirds, regardless of rarity (except for Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii, which is Endangered and is on Appendix I of CITES).

The relative abundance of Spot-throated Hummingbird is assessed as fairly common in Peru (Parker et al. 1996, Schulenberg et al. 2010).

Effects of human activity on populations

Human activiity has little effect on Spot-throated Hummingbird, at least in the short term; no threats to this species are identified by BirdLife International (2015).

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2015). Spot-throated Hummingbird (Leucippus taczanowskii), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.spthum2.01
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