Visorbearer
Genus of birds
| Visorbearer | |
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| Augastes lumachella | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Subfamily: | Polytminae |
| Genus: | Augastes Gould, 1849 |
| Type species | |
| Trochilus superbus[1] Vieillot, 1822 | |
| Species | |
| 2, see text | |
The visorbearers are hummingbirds in the bitypic genus Augastes in the family Trochilidae.
Species
The genus contains the following species:[2]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Hooded visorbearer
| Augastes lumachella (Lesson, 1839) | Brazil | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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| Hyacinth visorbearer
| Augastes scutatus (Temminck, 1824) Three subspecies
| Brazil | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Genera of nightjars, hummingbirds, swifts and their extinct allies
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