Sooty Barbthroat (Threnetes niger)
About the Sooty Barbthroat
The sooty barbthroat (Threnetes niger) is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Brazil and French Guiana. The sooty barbthroat was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Trochilus niger. The type locality is Cayenne in French Guiana. The sooty barbthroat is now placed in the genus Threnetes that was introduced by John Gould in 1852. Two subspecies are generally recognized: T. n. niger (Linnaeus, 1758) T. n. loehkeni Grantsau, 1969
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Listed as recorded in Brazil in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Band-tailed BarbthroatThrenetes ruckerirecording
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