Black-throated Brilliant (Heliodoxa schreibersii)

Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
12 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bourcier, 1847)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From 400 - 1,100 m, occasionally up to 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

Black-throated Brilliant (Heliodoxa schreibersii) [XC238370]
by Niels Krabbe from Napo: 3 km NW Guagua Sumaco, Ecuador (song)

Black-throated Brilliant (Heliodoxa schreibersii) [XC609631]
by Roger Ahlman from Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Formerly isolated in monospecific genus Ionolaima. Probably closely related to Gould's Brilliant (Heliodoxa aurescens).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) - South-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru (north of Amazon) to extreme north-western Amazonian Brazil (upper R Negro).
whitelyana (Gould, 1872) - Eastern Peru. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Black-breasted Brilliant (Heliodoxa whitelyana).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-throated Brilliant (Heliodoxa schreibersii) - 10 files

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