Birds of Brazil

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Discosura (2 species, 5 worldwide)


Black-bellied Thorntail
Black-bellied Thorntail (Discosura langsdorffi melanosternon) Male
Reserva Natural La Isla Escondida, Orito, Putumayo, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Black-bellied Thorntail
Black-bellied Thorntail (Discosura langsdorffi melanosternon) Female
Aconabikh Reserve, Peru
  Female is very similar to Wire-crested Thorntail except for green and white speckled chest (Hawrylyshyn)
   
Photograph by Peter Hawrylyshyn   © All Rights Reserved.


Racket-tipped Thorntail
Racket-tipped Thorntail (Discosura longicaudus)
Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.

Racket-tipped Thorntail
Racket-tipped Thorntail (Discosura longicaudus)
ESEC de Caetés, Pernambuco, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Ciro Albano - NE Brazil Birding   © All Rights Reserved.



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