Blue-tufted Starthroat - BirdForum Opus

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

Heliomaster furcifer

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.

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

photo by Helmut Schumann
Pantanal, Brazil, July 2009

Habitat

Mid-level humid forests and dry savanna.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Blue-tufted Starthroat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-tufted_Starthroat

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