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Photo by arthurgrosset
Photographed: Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil
Male on the left; female on the right

Chlorostilbon aureoventris

[edit] Identification

Male: Head mostly green with blue limited, not surrounding eye; bill red with black tip. Upperparts green, contrasting with dark blue, forked tail.
Female differs from the male in having a white streak behind the eye, whitish throat and breast, pale grey tips to the tail and a longer area of black on the bill.

[edit] Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

[edit] Taxonomy

Four subspecies are recognized, aureoventris, igneus, pucherani, and berlepschi. This species is sometimes listed as Chlorostilbon lucidus in which case the nominate subspecies also changes to lucidus.

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[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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