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Photo by ibera
Location: Esteros del Ibera, Argentina.

Heliomaster furcifer

[edit] Identification

Female of this species show a little white area behind the eye, have white tips on the forked tail, and lacks the white streak on lower central back found in other Starthroat species. It seems to be the Starthroat species with least speckling on the throat.

[edit] Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

photo by Helmut Schumann
Pantanal, Brazil, July 2009

[edit] Habitat

Forests and dry savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

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