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Pale-tailed Barbthroat

Threnetes leucurus

Classification

Class
Aves

The pale-tailed barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found throughout much of the Amazon Basin from the eastern Andean foothills to the Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy and systematics The pale-tailed barbthroat was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus leucurus.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 1,112Brazil · 264