Cinnamon-throated Hermit

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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Phaethornis
Species:	P. nattereri

Binomial name

Phaethornis nattereri
Berlepsch, 1887

The Cinnamon-throated Hermit (Phaethornis nattereri) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in a broad dry to semi-humid belt along the southern edge of the Amazon Rainforest from far north-eastern Bolivia north-east to Maranhão in Brazil. Its natural habitat is tropical dry to semi-humid forest, Cerrado and woodland.

Confusion exists over the northern form, the Maranhao Hermit, P. (n.) maranhaoensis: Schuchmann & Hinkelmann (1999) considered it invalid, believing it was the male plumage of P. nattereri. Mallet-Rodrigues (2006) was able to show that this was mistaken, as P. maranhaoensis only occurs in the northern part of the range of P. nattereri, and the two have different voices. Molecular work also confirms the validity of P. maranhaoensis as a separate species.

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BirdLife International 2004. Phaethornis nattereri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
Hinkelmann, C. (1999). Cinnamon-throated Hermit (Phaethornis nattereri). Pp. 546 in: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (editors) (1999): Handbook of Birds of the World, Volume 5: Barn-owls to Hummingbirds. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ISBN 84-87334-25-3
Mallet-Rodrigues, Francisco (2006). Táxons de aves de validade questionável com ocorrência no Brasil. III - Trochilidae (I). Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 14(4): 475-479. PDF available