Article: First record of the White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila aquila: Trochilidae) for Venezuela.(SHORT COMMUNICATIONS)

The White-tipped Sicklebill (Eutoxeres aquila) is a resident species in Central America from Costa Rica to Panama, in South America from the Colombian Pacific slope to northwestern Ecuador, and from the eastern slope of the Colombian Andes to northern Peru (Hilty and Brown 1986, Schuchmann 1999, Zamora et al. 2004). The altitudinal range is from sea-level to 2,100 m (Hilty and Brown 1986, Mazariegos 2000, Ridgely and Greenfield 2001, Zamora et al. 2004). Throughout most of its range, E. aquila inhabits the understory of humid forest, including second-growth forest and forest edges (Hilty and Brown 1986, Ridgely and Gwynne 1989, Stiles and Skutch 1989). It feeds mainly on ...

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