Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii)

Other Names (World)
Plain-capped Starthroat, Constant's Starthroat

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(DeLattre, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, dry forest. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (30)...)

Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii) [XC512324]
by Daniel Lane from Alamos, Sonora, Mexico (call)

Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster) [XC193255]
by Dan Lane from Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, United States (call)

Subspecies
Together with Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) occasionally separated in genus Anthoscenus, on basis of squarish tail, rounded rectrices and details of bill morphology. However, the distinguishing features vary in a continuum between these species and Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer), with Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) occupying intermediate position, and treatment of all four as congeners now generally accepted. Some authors also merge Rhodopis. Intergradation between subspecies leocadiae and nominate apparently occurs in El Salvador.

Proposed subspecies surdus of western Mexico now usually considered a synonym of leocadiae.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

pinicola Gould, 1853 - North-western Mexico (south to Jalisco).
leocadiae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1852) - Western and south-western Mexico and western Guatemala.
constantii (DeLattre, 1843) - El Salvador to southern Costa Rica.

References
See References.

Files:

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