Doricha enicura
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The slender sheartail (Doricha enicura) is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The slender sheartail shares genus Doricha with the Mexican sheartail (D. eliza). It is monotypic.
The male slender sheartail is 11 to 12.5 cm (4.3 to 4.9 in) long and weighs about 2.3 g (0.081 oz). Females are 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long and weigh about 2.6 g (0.092 oz). Both sexes have a long, decurved, black bill and a white spot behind the eye. The male's head, upperparts, and sides of the belly are green. Its gorget is pinkish purple and the chest and center of the belly white. The very long tail is deeply forked. The central pair of feathers are green and the others blackish. The female's upperparts are green and the underparts cinnamon-buff. It has a blackish stripe through the eye. Its tail is much shorter and less forked than the male's; its central pair of feathers are green and the others cinnamon with a wide black band near the tip and white tips.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cañón del Sumidero National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Slender Sheartail sighting in Cañón del Sumidero National Park on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 204th most-seen of the 243 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Slender Sheartail in Cañón del Sumidero National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April to February, the lowest months. That is one of Cañón del Sumidero National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain against 260 mm in June.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Slender Sheartail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cañón del Sumidero National Park, in our data
Cañón del Sumidero National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Slender Sheartail sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Trochilidae
The closest relatives of the Slender Sheartail that you can see in Cañón del Sumidero National Park (family Trochilidae, Hummingbirds) are Canivet's Emerald (about 40%), Berylline Hummingbird (about 30%) and Ruby-throated Hummingbird (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Slender Sheartail is recorded against all the birds logged in Cañón del Sumidero National Park (21 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
