Order: Apodiformes | Family: Trochilidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Yanatile, Cusco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Quillabamba, Cuzco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Brazil
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Brazil
Status: The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is uncommon an local. It is only known from the dry Urubamba Valley where it ranges at elevations between 1000-1500 m. The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird is also reported from Pampas del Heath in extreme southeast Peru. It also occurs in Br and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Colibrí de Cola Ahorquillada.
Sub-species: Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura hirundo), Gould, 1875.
Meaning of Name: Eupetomena: Gr. Eu= fine, good and petomenos= ever on the wing. macroura: Gr makros= long and ouros, oura= tailed, tail.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.