Family: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Authority: Wetmore & Phelps, Jr., 1952

Red List Category

Criteria: B1ab(iii,v); C2a(i)

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Justification of Red List category

This species has a very small range and population, restricted to a number of very small subpopulations, which are inferred to be declining as a variety of threats including narcotics cultivation, uncontrolled colonisation, cattle-ranching and mineral exploitation cause the loss and fragmentation of its high altitude habitat. It has consequently been uplisted as Endangered.

Population size: 250-999 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 2,400 km²

Country endemic: no