Black-billed Streamertail

Black-billed StreamertailThis hummingbird occurs at the eastern end of Jamaica. The 2018 survey paper used the earlier name Trochilus polytmus scitulus for this form and described the male’s black bill and long tail plumes.What does it look like?Males have a velvet-black crest, an emerald gorget and long ornamental tail plumes; the bill is jet black.How does it live?This hummingbird occurs at the eastern end of Jamaica. The 2018 survey paper used the earlier name Trochilus polytmus scitulus for this form and described the male’s black bill and long tail plumes.The paper describes the range in the John Crow and Blue Mountains as mainly wet montane forest and surrounding coastal lowlands.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.