Stripe-breasted starthroat

Stripe-breasted starthroat
SE Brazil (male)
SE Brazil (female)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Heliomaster
Species: H. squamosus
Binomial name
Heliomaster squamosus
Temminck, 1823

The stripe-breasted starthroat (Heliomaster squamosus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.

It is found only in regions of eastern and southeastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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