Grey-breasted Sabrewing

Grey-breasted Sabrewing
Grey-breasted Sabrewing in Ecuador.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Campylopterus
Species: C. largipennis
Binomial name
Campylopterus largipennis
Boddaert, 1783

The Grey-breasted Sabrewing (Campylopterus largipennis) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.

It is found in humid forest in the Guianas and the Amazon Basin with a smaller disjunct population (subspecies diamantinensis) in forest and woodland in Bahia and Minas Gerais in eastern Brazil.

A relatively large hummingbird with grey underparts and broad white tail-tips, it is generally common.

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