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Fork-Tailed Woodnymph (Vorkstaartbosnimf)


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Fork-Tailed Woodnymph - Thalurania furcata - Vorkstaartbosnimf
Mexico to tropical South-America.

The following 12 subspecies are being recognised:
Thalurania furcata furcata - Extreme East-Venezuela, Guianas and Northeast-Brazil north of the Amazon;
Thalurania furcata refulgens - Northeast-Venezuela;
Thalurania furcata fissilis - East-Venezuela, West-Guyana and Northeast-Brazil;
Thalurania furcata nigrofasciata - Southeast-Colombia to South-Venezuela and Northwest-Brazil;
Thalurania furcata viridipectus - East slope of Andes and lowlands of East-Colombia and Northeast-Peru;
Thalurania furcata jelskii - Tropical East-Peru and adjacent Brazil;
Thalurania furcata simoni - Amazonia south of the Amazon in East-Peru and West-Brazil;
Thalurania furcata balzani - Northcentral-Brazil south of the Amazon;
Thalurania furcata furcatoides - Lower Amazon region of East-Brazil south of the Amazon;
Thalurania furcata boliviana - Andean foothills and adjacent lowlands of Southeast-Peru and Northeast-Bolivia;
Thalurania furcata baeri - Northeast- and Central-Brazil to Southeast-Bolivia and North-Argentina;
Thalurania furcata eriphile - Southeast-Brazil, adjacent Paraguay and Northeast-Argentina.

Of this species there are no Nature Photo's available.


Fork-Tailed WoodnymphThalurania furcata ssp.
Fork-Tailed Woodnymph
Thalurania furcata ssp.