Slender-tailed Woodstar
Microstilbon burmeisteri(Sclater, PL, 1888)
English (US) Slender-tailed Woodstar
The Slender-tailed Woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri) 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: arid scrub of eastern Bolivia and northwestern ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Microstilbon burmeisteri
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Slender-tailed Woodstar
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL, 1888)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chaetocercus burmeisteri
- Described by
- (Sclater, PL, 1888)
- Type locality
- Valle del Taff, Tucuman, Argentina.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887, pt.4 p.639
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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