Booted racket-tail

The booted racket-tails are a small group of hummingbirds in the genus Ocreatus that was long considered to have only one species, O. underwoodii.

Booted racket-tail
Male Anna's racket-tail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Tribe:	Heliantheini
Genus:	Ocreatus Gould, 1846
Type species
Trochilus addae[1] Bourcier, 1846

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 the taxa annae, addae, and peruanus be raised to species level.^[2] 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.^[3] The American Ornithological Society has yet to recognize the split.

Species

The genus contains three species:^[4]

Male	Female	Common name	Name	Distribution
		Peruvian racket-tail	Ocreatus peruanus	eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru
		Rufous-booted racket-tail	Ocreatus addae	southern Peru
		White-booted racket-tail	Ocreatus underwoodii	Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia

References

1. "Trochilidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
2. Schuchmann, Karl-L.; Weller, André-A.; Jürgens, Dietmar (2016). "Biogeography and taxonomy of racket-tail hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae: Ocreatus): Evidence for species delimitation from morphology and display behavior". Zootaxa. 4200 (1): 83. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4200.1.3. PMID 27988640.
3. "Proposed Splits/Lumps « IOC World Bird List".
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2020.