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Blue-throated Hillstar
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Blue-throated Hillstar
Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus
The blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus), also sometimes called the blue-throated star, is a highly endangered species of hummingbird found only in a very small portion of the southwestern Andes in Ecuador. Discovered in 2018, it can be clearly distinguished from other hillstars by the ultramarine color of its iridescent throat.
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Every page naming Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 956112.