Stripe-throated Hermit

Phaethornis striigularis Gould, 1854

Stripe-throated Hermit, Phaethornis striigularis, is a hummingbird of Middle America and north-western South America, from southern Mexico to Venezuela and western Ecuador. It was described by Gould in 1854. It is a resident of wooded places including forest, woodland, clearings, thickets and gardens, usually in humid country but also in some drier deciduous areas. It is mainly a lowland and foothill bird, though it has been recorded as high as 1,800 m. It has a long, downcurved bill, with yellow on the base of the lower mandible and black elsewhere.

Order

Apodiformes

Family

Trochilidae — Hummingbirds

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: s Mexico to Venezuela and w Ecuador