Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Shaw, 1812)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay (B).

Unknown to Ecuador.

Central and eastern Bolivia (from Cochabamba and Tarija), Paraguay and central and southern Brazil (Mato Grosso and Goiás to Rio Grande do Sul) south to Uruguay and northern Argentina (south to Catamarca, Córdoba and northern Buenos Aires). Single records from south-eastern Colombia (Leticia) and north-eastern Ecuador (eastern Napo).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (29)...)

Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) [XC539987]
by id from Col\u00f3n, Departamento Col\u00f3n, Entre R\u00edos, Argentina (song)

Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) [XC725837]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Taquaral de Goi\u00e1s, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Formerly isolated as the only species in present genus, on basis of forked tail, pointed rectrices and details of bill morphology, the remaining three species being placed in genera Anthoscenus and Lepidolarynx. However, the distinguishing features vary in a continuum between present species and Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii) and Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris), with Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) occupying an intermediate position, and treatment of all four as congeners now generally accepted. Some authors also merge Rhodopis.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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