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Photo by Stanley Jones
Huascarán National Park, Yungay, Ancash, Peru, August 2017
Oreotrochilus stolzmanni

Identification

Distribution

Andes of northern and central Peru (Cajamarca, Huánuco) and adjacent southern Ecuador.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Green-headed Hillstar was recently split from Andean Hillstar.

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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