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Blue-throated Starfrontlet
Coeligena helianthea (Lesson, RP, 1839)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Blue-throated Starfrontlet, Coeligena helianthea, is a hummingbird of northern and eastern Colombia and western Venezuela, with breeding records from the Andes of ne Colombia and w Venezuela. It lives in cloudforest and elfin forest, on shrubby slopes, at the lower edge of páramo, and in flowering gardens. Its long, straight black bill and white mark behind the eye help identify it, along with a bronzy black forked tail. Males and females differ in plumage, and the species includes the nominate form and C. h. tamai.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: ne Colombia and w Venezuela
