Peruvian Sheartail
Thaumastura cora(Lesson, RP; Garnot, P, 1827)
English (US) Peruvian Sheartail
The Peruvian Sheartail (Thaumastura cora) 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 western Peru to far northern Chile (Arica)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thaumastura cora
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Peruvian Sheartail
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP; Garnot, P, 1827)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Orthorhynchus Cora
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP; Garnot, P, 1827)
- Type locality
- Between Callao and Lima, Peru.
- Original description
- Voyage autour du Monde exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 (etc.). Zoologie 1 p.682, pl.31 fig.4
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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