Birds of Brazil

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Genus: Heliomaster (3 species, 4 worldwide)


Blue-tufted Starthroat
Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) Male
Fazenda Grotão, Brasilia, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.


Long-billed Starthroat
Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris longirostris) Male
ProAves Blue-billed Curassow Reserve, Puerto Pinzon, Boyaca, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Long-billed Starthroat
Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) Female
Puerto Nariño, Amazonas, Colombia   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Seems to wander; widespread but not reliable anywhere.
Feeding at heliconia.

Stripe-breasted Starthroat
Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) Male ENDEMIC
Brasilia, DF, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.

Stripe-breasted Starthroat
Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) Female ENDEMIC
Brazil   		   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.


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