Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Gilded Hummingbird (Hylocharis chrysura) - HBW 5, p. 590
French: Saphir à queue d’or
German: Goldsaphirkolibri
Spanish: Zafiro Bronceado
Taxonomy: Trochilus chrysurus Shaw, 1812, Paraguay.
Some authors recognize a race platensis (S Brazil), but size differences and more intense coppery gold on underparts appear to refer to clinal variation. Monotypic.
Distribution: NE & SC Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca, Tarija), Paraguay and C & SE Brazil (Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais to São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul) to Uruguay and N Argentina (S to Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires).
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A bird flying around some flowers and feeding on them Locality Pousada Aguapé, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 9 January 2005 4 years ago 34 sec 4.7 -
A bird at a feeder Locality Jardín de Picaflores, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 May 2005 6 years ago 37 sec 4.5 -
A female at the hummingbird garden, Puerto Iguazu. Locality Misiones Province, Argentina
German Pugnali 19 October 2006 3 years ago 2 sec 3 -
A perched bird singing and stretching wings and tail Locality Itirapina, São Paulo State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 7 January 2005 5 years ago 35 sec 2.5
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Perched on a branch.
Locality Jardín de Picaflores, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Carmelo López 8 November 2011 19 weeks ago 4.5 -
Bird perched on the edge of a twig.
Locality Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Santiago Meligeni Lozano 8 June 2010 1 year ago 4.4 -
In flight
Locality Jardín de Picaflores, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (ssp chrysura)
Horacio Luna 3 November 2011 26 weeks ago 4.3 -
In flight.
Locality Jardín de Picaflores, Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Carmelo López 8 November 2011 19 weeks ago 4 -
A bird at a feeder
Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina
Aleix Comas 1 September 2008 2 years ago 3.6 -
Feeding
Locality Esteros del Iberá, Corrientes Province, Argentina
oleicfrisbee 51 weeks ago 3.5
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Calls given by a bird mobbing a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. Locality Caiman Lodge, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 3 July 2006 2 years ago 4
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