Long-billed Starthroat
Heliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801)
Spanish: Colibrí Picudo Coroniazul
The Long-billed Starthroat (Heliomaster longirostris) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems). It weighs about 6.6 g and its bill is 35.0 mm long. It lives in 17 countries, including Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia and Peru. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 6.6 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 35.0 mm
- Lives in
- Forest
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Least concern, decreasing
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Lampornithini mountain gems
- Genus Heliomaster starthroats
What Heliomaster share: Very long, straight bills.
Where it lives · 18 countries
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- Panama
- Colombia
- Peru
- Guatemala
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Venezuela
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Guyana
- Nicaragua
- Bolivia
- Belize
- Suriname
- Paraguay rare visitor
Others in the genus Heliomaster
- Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii
- Stripe-breasted Starthroat Heliomaster squamosus
- Blue-tufted Starthroat Heliomaster furcifer
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.
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