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has shining green upperparts with a glittering green forehead. Its underparts are black with a small glittering purple patch and narrow glittering green band on the lower throat. The steel blue tail is very long and deeply forked. The female's upperparts are like the male's, and in addition it has a whitish to rufous
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follows HBW taxonomy and so has treated the two taxa as separate species. Both are assessed of Least
Concern. The population size of neither is known and both are believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified. Both taxa appear to be uncommon and patchily distributed, but there
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and scrublands. In elevation it mostly ranges between 400 and 1,000 m (1,300 and 3,300 ft). However, in eastern
Ecuador, it regularly but locally occurs as high as 1,450 m (4,800 ft) and occasionally up to 1,900 m (6,200 ft). In the early 2000s two individuals of this
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of black-throated brilliant is 11.5 to 13 cm (4.5 to 5.1 in) long. Males weigh about 9.9 g (0.35 oz) and females 7.1 to 8.5 g (0.25 to 0.30 oz). Both have an almost straight dark bill about 2.8 cm (1.1 in) long and a small white spot behind the eye. The male
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is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long, also with a 2.8 cm (1.1 in) long bill. The male's entire upperparts are shining green including the forehead. Its underparts and tail are the same as the nominate's. Females and juveniles are the same as those of the nominate subspecies.
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Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 31 January 2022. A classification of the bird species of South
America. American Ornithological Society.
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The breeding season of the nominate black-throated brilliant spans at least from
February to May but may extend as late as October. The female incubates the clutch of two eggs. Nothing else is known about its breeding biology or that of subspecies
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Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from
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stripe. Its underparts are gray with bronzy green spots. Its central tail feathers are green and the tail is less deeply forked than the male's. Juveniles resemble females with a more intensely colored malar stripe.
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What is thought to be the song of the nominate black-throated brilliant is "a repeated, drawn-out, descending reeling trill of c. 4–5 seconds." It also makes single "chup" notes. The presumed song of
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The black-throated brilliant primarily forages for nectar in the forest's understory, typically between 2 and 4 m (7 and 10 ft) high. Flowering plants of families
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Jacob B. Socolar; et al. (2018). "Noteworthy bird records from northeastern Peru reveal connectivity and isolation in the western
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are among its targets. It also captures small insects by
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1138:IUCN Red List least concern species
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333:but it has gained little support.
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341:The nominate subspecies
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249:black-throated brilliant
1168:Birds described in 1847
720:in the monotypic genus
1060:Trochilus schreibersii
1048:Heliodoxa-schreibersii
855:Heliodoxa schreibersii
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517:Heliodoxa schreibersii
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609:"Appendices | CITES"
566:Heliodoxa whitelyana
203:H. schreibersii
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169:Apodiformes
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488:The
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