Thalurania furcata (Gmelin, 1788)

Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Marques de Oliveira, Uéslei, Santos do Nascimento, Sheiliane, Santos, Marcos Pérsio Dantas & Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, 2021, Preliminary survey of avifauna of the Estação Ecológica do Cuniã in Porto Velho, northern Brazil, Check List 17 (1), pp. 289-310 : 299

Thalurania furcata (Gmelin, 1788)

Figure 5I Records. BRAZIL – Rondônia • Porto Velho, Estação

Ecológica de Cuniã; first record on 29.I.2018; captured with mist-nets and banded;plots T10 T18, T25, T29, R03, R07, R10, R11, R16; mist-netsCEMAVE-A54902; male and female.

Identification. This species has a mean body length of 10 cm. The male has an iridescent-green throat and upper breast. The underparts are deep iridescent blue. The tail is bluish and forked, and the upperparts are dull green in males. In females the upperparts are green and the underparts are gray, with green on the sides of the breast and belly.