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White-booted racket-tail

Ocreatus underwoodii (R. Lesson, 1832)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The white-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) is a species in the family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes. Recorded adults weigh 3 g to 3.1 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii)
Photo: Lip Kee · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the white-booted racket-tail

Weight
3 g – 3.1 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Nectarivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
2src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the white-booted racket-tail live?

Not recorded

What is the white-booted racket-tail?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The white-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

From the Wikipedia article “White-booted racket-tail” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White-booted_racket-tail&oldid=1380260053), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

What does the white-booted racket-tail sound like?

Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Is the white-booted racket-tail endangered?

The white-booted racket-tail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species.

How is the white-booted racket-tail classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderApodiformes
  5. familyTrochilidae
  6. genusOcreatus
  7. SpeciesOcreatus underwoodii (R. Lesson, 1832)

Synonyms Ornismya underwoodii

Other names and names in other languages (41)
  • Booted racket-tailEnglish
  • Booted racket-tailEnglish
  • ذيل المضرب أبيض الحذاءArabic
  • PeangKotava
  • colibrí cua de fullaCatalan
  • sylfa vlajkováCzech
  • papučka vlajkováCzech
  • sïedn bacsiog llwygynffonWelsh
  • Hvidkvastet SpatelhaleDanish
  • FlaggensylpheGerman
  • FlaggensylveGerman
  • Grünscheitel-FlaggensylpheGerman
  • GrünscheitelflaggensylpheGerman
  • blankbota flagkolibroEsperanto
  • Colibrí de raquetasSpanish
  • Colibrí Cola de RaquetaSpanish
  • دمپارویی پاپرPersian
  • lippupyrstökolibriFinnish
  • Haut-de-chausses à palettesFrench
  • kolibrić barjaktarCroatian
  • lobogós kolibriHungarian
  • Colibrì dalle racchetteItalian
  • ラケットハチドリJapanese
  • kolibris vėliavnešysLithuanian
  • VlagstaartpluimbroekjeDutch
  • VlagstaartwitpluimbroekjeDutch
  • vimpelkolibriNorwegian
  • furczakPolish
  • Furczak długopióryPolish
  • colibri-de-raquetes-nortenhoPortuguese
  • beija-flor-de-raquetes-setentrionalPortuguese
  • Колибри-знаменщикRussian
  • Знаменщик УндервудаRussian
  • papučkavec chvostnatýSlovak
  • Čizmasti kolibriSerbian
  • flaggkolibriSwedish
  • vittofsad flaggkolibriSwedish
  • Raket Kuyruklu KolibriTurkish
  • колібрі-пухоніг віхтьохвостийUkrainian
  • 盘尾蜂鸟Chinese
  • 長靴拍尾蜂鳥Chinese

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Relatives of the white-booted racket-tail

Other species in the same genus Ocreatus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the white-booted racket-tail?

An adult white-booted racket-tail weighs 3 g – 3.1 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the white-booted racket-tail endangered?

The white-booted racket-tail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the white-booted racket-tail?

The white-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii) belongs to the family Trochilidae in the order Apodiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/white-booted-racket-tail

MLA

“White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/white-booted-racket-tail.

BibTeX
@misc{white_booted_racket_tail_2026,
  title = {White-booted racket-tail (Ocreatus underwoodii)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/white-booted-racket-tail},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}