Straight-billed hermit

Straight-billed hermit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Phaethornis
Species: P. bourcieri
Binomial name
Phaethornis bourcieri
Lesson, 1832

The straight-billed hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri) is a species of bird in the Trochilidae family, the hummingbirds.

It is found in the Guyanas of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana; also the northern Amazon basin of Brazil, and Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; it is in eastern Venezuela and the Orinoco River Basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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