Listen to the brown violetear
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About the brown violetear
The brown violetear is a bird in the family Trochilidae (order Apodiformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”. Adults weigh around 1 g.
What does the brown violetear sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as lek song, call and song. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The brown violetear (Colibri delphinae) is a large hummingbird that breeds at middle elevations in the mountains in Central America, and western and northern South America (primarily the Andes and the tepuis) with isolated populations on Trinidad and in the Brazilian state Bahia.
The breeding habitat is forest at altitudes between 400 and 1600 m, but the brown Violet-ear will spread widely into the lowlands when not nesting. It is replaced at higher altitudes by its relative, the lesser violetear (C. cyanotus), but their ranges overlap widely.
Related birds in the genus Colibri
More from the family Trochilidae
Anna's hummingbird
Calypte anna
Sword-billed hummingbird
Ensifera ensifera
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Archilochus colubris
Calliope hummingbird
Selasphorus calliope
Black-chinned hummingbird
Archilochus alexandri
White-tipped sicklebill
Eutoxeres aquila
Green hermit
Phaethornis guy
White-necked jacobin
Florisuga mellivora
Fiery topaz
Topaza pyra
White-booted racket-tail
Ocreatus underwoodii
Frequently asked questions
What does a brown violetear sound like?
You can hear 6 recordings of the brown violetear on this page, including its lek song, call and song. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the brown violetear endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the brown violetear as “least concern”.
What family does the brown violetear belong to?
The brown violetear (Colibri delphinae) belongs to the family Trochilidae in the order Apodiformes.
Sources & credits
- Lek song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Call · El Oro: Reserva Buenaventura 9 km WNW Piñas, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Lek song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Lek song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Lek song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Filo de Chumbiriatza, tepui 4.5 km SW… by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q535416 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Brown violetear – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Joseph C Boone – CC BY-SA 4.0