Blue-tufted Starthroat
Heliomaster furcifer(Shaw, G, 1812)
English (US) Blue-tufted Starthroat
The Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) 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: Bolivia to Paraguay, central and southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northern ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Heliomaster furcifer
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-tufted Starthroat
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1812)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus Furcifer
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1812)
- Type locality
- Paraguay.
- Original description
- General Zoology, or systematic natural history 8, pt1 p.280
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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