Scale-throated hermit

Scale-throated hermit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Phaethornis
Species: P. eurynome
Binomial name
Phaethornis eurynome
Lesson, 1832
Synonyms

Phaethornis nigrirostris Ruschi, 1973

The scale-throated hermit (Phaethornis eurynome) is a species in the hummingbird family, Trochilidae.

It is found in or near Atlantic forest in north-eastern Argentina, south-eastern Brazil, and eastern Paraguay. It is generally fairly common, and consequently considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International and IUCN.[1]

The supposed "black-billed hermit", described as P. nigrirostris, has turned out to be a mutant P. eurynome with an all-black bill.[2]

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