No. 70 (2025), Novel Records
No. 70 (2025)

First record of Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) for Formosa province

Novel Records
Published 26.06.2025
Natalia Sol Alfonso
Parque Nacional Quebrada del Condorito, Av. Sebastian Basch 504, Villa Carlos Paz, Córdoba
Leandro Bareiro Guiñazu
Instituto de recursos biológicos, INTA Castelar, Calle Las Cabañas y los Reseros s/n Castelar (1686), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Argentina
Dry Chaco distribution
Formosa
Giant Hummingbird
Patagona gigas

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Alfonso, Natalia Sol, and Leandro Bareiro Guiñazu. 2025. “First Record of Giant Hummingbird (Patagona Gigas) for Formosa Province”. Nuestras Aves, no. 70 (June): 139-40. https://doi.org/10.56178/na.vi70.1067.
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Abstract

In this communication we report the first record of the Giant Hummingbird (Patagona gigas) for the province of Formosa.

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