Mountain Avocetbill
Opisthoprora euryptera(Loddiges, G, 1832)
English (US) Mountain Avocetbill
The Mountain Avocetbill (Opisthoprora euryptera) 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: central Andes of Colombia to northern Peru (Amazonas to La Libertad)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Opisthoprora euryptera
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Mountain Avocetbill
- Described by
- (Loddiges, G, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochilus eurypterus
- Described by
- (Loddiges, G, 1832)
- Type locality
- Popayan, Colombia.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 2, no.15 p.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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