Chilean name: Comesebo negro
February 2007
The Black-throated Flowerpiercer is distributed in the Andes of Peru between about 2,500m and 4,000m with a few individuals found in northern Chile. There is also a disjunct population in northern Colombia which was only discovered in 1980.
It is mainly black above and rufous-chestnut below with a black throat.
There is a recording of its tinkly song at xeno-canto.
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