Birds of the World

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Heliomaster (4 species)


Plain-capped Starthroat
Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii)
Range: MA: w
Mexico  
   
Photograph by Nigel from Vancouver     Copyright and usage info


Blue-tufted Starthroat
Blue-tufted Starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) Male
Range: SA: Bolivia and sw Brazil to n Argentina, se Brazil and Uruguay
Fazenda Grotão, Brasilia, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.


Long-billed Starthroat
Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris longirostris) Male
Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to e Bolivia and ne Brazil
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
Range: MA, SA: s Mexico to e Bolivia and ne Brazil
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
Range: SA: e, se Brazil
Brasilia, DF, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.

Stripe-breasted Starthroat
Stripe-breasted Starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) Female
Range: SA: e, se Brazil
Brazil  
   
Photograph by João Sérgio Barros F. de Souza   © All Rights Reserved.



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