Fiery-tailed Awlbill
Avocettula recurvirostris(Swainson, WJ, 1822)
English (US) Fiery-tailed Awlbill
The Fiery-tailed Awlbill (Avocettula recurvirostris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Trochilidae (Hummingbirds) in the order Apodiformes.
Range: southeastern Venezuela to the Guianas and north-central Brazil; eastern EcuadorRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Avocettula recurvirostris
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Fiery-tailed Awlbill
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1822)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus recurvirostris
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1822)
- Type locality
- Peru; error, Cayenne designated by Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., 15, 1908, p. 264.
- Original description
- Zoological Illustrations ser.1, vol.2, no.20 pl.105,text
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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