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Booted Racket-tails
Ocreatus
The booted racket-tails, a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Ocreatus that was long considered to have only one species, O. underwoodii; field research by Karl-L. Schuchmann published in 2016 found notable differences between some populations traditionally assigned to O. underwoodii, however, and recommended that the taxa annae, addae, and peruanus be raised to species level. The research results have been mostly accepted by the IOC, with more data required for the species status of...
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species
White-booted Racket-tail
speciesOcreatus underwoodii
Peruvian Racket-tail
speciesOcreatus peruanus
Rufous-booted Racket-tail
speciesOcreatus addae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 5857.