| Tumbes Hummingbird Thaumasius baeri (aka Leucippus baeri) |
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Chaparri, Lambayeque,Peru October 2018 The Tumbes Hummingbird is restricted to the Tumbes region of Ecuador and Peru. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in arid scrub and dry forest at below 1,000 metres. |
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It is a drab hummingbird with plain underparts and an
unspotted throat. There is a white spot behind the eye. It is smaller than the similar Spot-throated
Hummingbird T. taczanowskii with a dark band across the end of the tail and white spots at the tip.
Gustave-Adolphe Baer was a French naturalist who collected in Brazil and Peru in the 19th century. |
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