Wire-crested Thorntail
Discosura popelairii(Du Bus de Gisignies, B-AL, 1846)
English (US) Wire-crested Thorntail
The Wire-crested Thorntail (Discosura popelairii) 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: eastern Colombia to eastern Ecuador and northeastern PeruRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Discosura popelairii
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Wire-crested Thorntail
- Described by
- (Du Bus de Gisignies, B-AL, 1846)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus popelairii
- Described by
- (Du Bus de Gisignies, B-AL, 1846)
- Type locality
- Peru.
- Original description
- Esquisses ornithologiques; descriptions et figures d'oiseaux nouveaux ou peu connus livr.2 pl.6,text
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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