Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Campylopterus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Wedge-tailed Sabrewing Campylopterus curvipennis

Marîa del Coro Arizmendi, Claudia I. Rodríguez-Flores, Carlos A. Soberanes-González, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published November 20, 2012

Behavior

Introduction

There is very little information on the behavior of Wedge-tailed Sabrewing. They primarily occur in the under- and mid story (Smithe 1966).

Males sing from bare twigs in the understory, solitarily or in small groups (Howell and Webb 1995, González and Ornelas 2005).

Territoriality

Sexual Behavior

Social and interspecific behavior

Usually solitary, as is typical of hummingbirds; males may congregate in small singing groups, however (González and Ornelas 2005).

Predation

Recommended Citation

Arizmendi, M. d. C., C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, C. A. Soberanes-González, and T. S. Schulenberg (2012). Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (Campylopterus curvipennis), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.wetsab1.01
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