page_title: Long-billed hermit
section_title: Species variation
hierarchical_section_title: Long-billed hermit / Species variation
caption_attribution_description: Mexican Hermit at Rancho Dioon, Oaxaca, Mexico, 080331. Phaethornis mexicanus. Phaethornis (longirostris) mexicanus
context_page_description: The long-billed hermit is a large hummingbird that is a resident breeder from central Mexico south to northwestern Colombia, extreme western Venezuela and western Ecuador. This species was formerly known as the western long-tailed hermit or just long-tailed hermit, but was renamed to highlight its unusual bill.
  The taxonomy of this group is complicated, with similar hermit populations from both sides of the Andes being originally named as one species, the long-tailed hermit, P. superciliosus. The latter name in now reserved for the species east of the cordillera.
context_section_description: There is potential separation of the paler, greyer, and slightly smaller southern subspecies P. l. baroni as Baron's hermit, P. baroni.
  The adult long-billed hermit is mainly dark green above with a blue-green rump. It has a dark mask through the eye, with buff stripes above and below this, and a brown face. The underparts are grey to buff in colour. The sexes are similar, although the female is slightly smaller, but young birds have buff fringes to the feathers of the upperparts and head.
caption: P. l. mexicanus (Mexican hermit)
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