White-booted racket-tail

Booted Racket-tail
	male, ssp. melanantherus
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Ocreatus; Gould, 1846
Species:	O. underwoodii
Binomial name
	Ocreatus underwoodii; (Lesson, 1832)

The Booted Racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) is a species of hummingbird. It is found in the Andean cordillera of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela; Venezuela also has a population on the northern coast.

Description

The upperparts are a golden green colour and the rump has a white bar. The throat and breast are a brilliant emerald green. The legs are feathered down to the feet with horny white short feathers. The tail is brownish black and deeply forked. The tail feathers on either side increase in length from the centre and the outermost ones are exceptionally long and have bare shafts tipped by oval plumes, which gives the species its common name.^[2]

References

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^ Jardine, Sir William (1833). The Naturalist's Library. Ornithology: Humming-Birds. p. 110. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

Booted Racket-tail videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Stamps (for Ecuador) with RangeMap
Photo-High Res; Article
Photo(male); Photo-2(female)-High Res; Article
Booted Racket-tail photo gallery VIREO

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[2] Jardine, Sir William (1833). The Naturalist's Library. Ornithology: Humming-Birds. p. 110. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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