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Pale-tailed Barbthroat
Threnetes leucurus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Pale-tailed Barbthroat, Threnetes leucurus, is a hummingbird of South America, breeding in Amazonia, Guyana and Surinam. It belongs to the family Trochilidae and was described by Linnaeus in 1766. It is a bird of humid lowland and higher tropical forest, as well as open and semi-open places, gallery forest, várzea, igapó swamp forest and plantations. The species is found from southern and eastern Venezuela through Guyana and Suriname into Amazonian Brazil and north-eastern Bolivia, with the nominate form in that northern part of the range. Its breeding range includes Surinam, matching the type locality.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- South America: Amazonia, Guyana and Surinam
