Plain-capped Starthroat
Heliomaster constantii (Delattre, 1843)
Spanish: Colibrí Picudo Occidental
The Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Lampornithini (mountain gems). It weighs about 7.3 g and its bill is 35.8 mm long. It lives in Mexico, Costa Rica, the United States, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 7.3 g, about 7 paperclips
- Bill
- 35.8 mm
- Lives in
- Woodland
- 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 · 9 countries
- Mexico
- Costa Rica
- United States
- Nicaragua
- El Salvador
- Honduras
- Guatemala
- Panama rare visitor
- Belize rare visitor
Others in the genus Heliomaster
- Long-billed Starthroat Heliomaster longirostris
- 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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