Green-backed Hillstar
Urochroa leucuraLawrence, GN, 1864
English (US) Green-backed Hillstar
The Green-backed Hillstar (Urochroa leucura) 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: east slope of Andes from southern Colombia (Nariño) to eastern Ecuador (south at least to Morona-Santiago) and northern Peru (Amazonas, San MartÃn)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Urochroa leucura
- Order
- Apodiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Green-backed Hillstar
- Described by
- Lawrence, GN, 1864
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Lawrence, GN, 1864
- Type locality
- Ecuador.
- Original description
- Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8(1867) p.43
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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