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| name =

| image = Ocreatus addae (Rufous-bootedBooted Racket-tail), Paucartambo,(Ocreatus Peruunderwoodii) (20700863672).jpg

| image_caption = Male Anna's[[white-booted racket-tail]]

| taxon = Ocreatus

| authority = [[John Gould|Gould]], 1846

| type_species = ''[[Rufous-booted racket-tail|Trochilus addae]]''<ref name=HM4>{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=80 |title= Trochilidae |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}</ref>

| type_species_authority = [[Jules Bourcier|Bourcier]], 1846

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The '''booted racket-tails''' are a small group of [[hummingbird]]s in the genus '''''Ocreatus''''' that was long considered to have only one species, ''O. underwoodii''. They are native to [[cloud forest]]s in the South American [[Andes]] and [[Maritime Andes]]. They are relatively small, mostly green hummingbirds with white or rufous leg-puffs ("boots") and males' have two long [[Racket (sports equipment)|racket]]-shaped extensions to the tail.

==Taxonomy==

The genus was first recognized by [[John Gould]] in 1846. Field research by Karl-L. Schuchmann published in 2016, however, found notable differences between some populations traditionally assigned to ''O. underwoodii'', and recommended that thethree taxa[[allopatric]] [[subspecies]] groups, ''annaeaddae'', ''addaeannae'', and ''peruanus'', should be raised to species level.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): Evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4200 | issue=1 | pages=83 | doi= 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.1.3 | pmid=27988640 | url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311004563| year=2016 | last1=Schuchmann | first1=Karl-L. | last2=Weller | first2=André-A. | last3=Jürgens | first3=Dietmar }}</ref> The research results have been mostly accepted by the [[International Ornithological Union]], with more data required for the species status of Anna's racket-tail (''annae''), which they instead regard as a subspecies of ''O. addae''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/proposed-splits/ | title=Proposed Splits/Lumps « IOC World Bird List}}</ref> The [[American Ornithological Society]] has yet to recognize the split.

===Species===

The genus contains three species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2020 | title=Hummingbirds | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/hummingbirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=2 January 2020 }}</ref>