Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Rufous-shafted Woodstar (Chaetocercus jourdanii) - HBW 5, p. 678
French: Colibri de Jourdan
German: Rotfahnenelfe
Spanish: Colibrí de Jourdan
Other common names: Jourdan’s Woodstar
Taxonomy: Ornismya Jourdanii Bourcier, 1839, Trinidad.
Often treated as sole member of present genus, but no evidence in external morphology for treatment in a different genus from those species traditionally placed in Acestrura. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- jourdanii (Bourcier, 1839) - Trinidad and NE Venezuela (mountains of Cumaná).
- rosae (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) - highlands of N Venezuela (Zulia to Distrito Federal).
- andinus Phelps & Phelps, Jr., 1949 - Andes of Venezuela (Lara to Táchira) and E Andes of N Colombia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male on a branch.
Locality Posada de Aves, San Antonio de Los Altos, Miranda State, Venezuela (ssp rosae)
Eduardo López 21 November 2009 2 years ago 4
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