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Photo by ibera
Location: Esteros del Ibera, Argentina, December 2006

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

South America: found in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.

photo by Helmut Schumann
Pantanal, Brazil, July 2009

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Mid-level humid forests and dry savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

Photo by Marcelo Allende
Posadas, Misiones, Argentina, March 2012

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase

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