- Thalurania furcata
Identification
10,2 cm (4 in), 4,6 g
Male
- Glittering green throat
- Violet belly and narrow band across the back of the neck
- Bronzy green upperparts
- White on its thighs
Distribution
South America: found in Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Taxonomy
This is a polytypic species[1] consisting of 13 subspecies:
Subspecies
- T. f. refulgens: North-eastern Venezuela (Paría Peninsula and Sierra de Cumaná)
- T. f. furcata: Extreme eastern Venezuela, Guianas and north-eastern Brazil north of the Amazon
- T. f. fissilis: Eastern Venezuela, adjacent extreme western Guyana and north-eastern Brazil
- T. f. orenocensis: Southern Venezuela (upper Orinoco region in Amazonas)
- T. f. nigrofasciata: South-eastern Colombia to extreme southern Venezuela and north-western Brazil
- T. f. viridipectus: Eastern slope of Andes and lowlands of eastern Colombia to north-eastern Peru
- T. f. jelskii: Tropical eastern Peru and adjacent Brazil
- T. f. simoni: Amazonia south of the Amazon in extreme eastern Peru and western Brazil
- T. f. balzani: North-central Brazil south of the Amazon
- T. f. furcatoides: Lower Amazon region of eastern Brazil south of the Amazon
- T. f. boliviana: Andean foothills and adjacent lowlands of south-eastern Peru and north-eastern Bolivia
- T. f. baeri: North-eastern and central Brazil to south-eastern Bolivia and northern Argentina
- T. f. eriphile: South-eastern Brazil, adjacent Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones)
Habitat
Atlantic and mountain forest and forest edges.
Behaviour
Quite shy of humans, solitary, territorial and aggressive.
Gallery
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Male
Photo by Luiz
Vargem Bonita, near Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil, September 2011
References
- 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 https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/EB8F11B5]. Retrieved 16 September 2021
- Arthur Grosset
- BF Member observations
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Fork-tailed Woodnymph. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 March 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fork-tailed_Woodnymph
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