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Sooty Barbthroat

Threnetes niger

Classification

Class
Aves

The sooty barbthroat (Threnetes niger) is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Brazil and French Guiana. Taxonomy The sooty barbthroat was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus niger.

Distribution

John Gould · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 6