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Plain-capped Starthroat
Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Plain-capped Starthroat, Heliomaster constantii, is a hummingbird of Middle America, breeding in western Mexico and ranging south through Central America to north-western Costa Rica. It is a resident in most of this area, with the northern race also reaching Arizona. It lives in dry to semi-dry country, including forest margins, thorn forest, scrub, gallery forest, secondary growth and open places with scattered trees. A key feature is the long, nearly straight black bill, shared by both sexes, along with a white line behind the eye. The sexes are much alike, and the species has three subspecies.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- Middle America: w
