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Beautiful Hummingbird - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name: Beautiful Sheartail

Calothorax pulcher

Identification

8–9 cm

Similar Species

Very similar to Lucifer Hummingbird .

Distribution

Arid scrub of southern Mexico (Guerrero and southern Puebla to eastern Oaxaca).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

Habitat

Dry subtropical highland scrub and thorn forest.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of nectar and small flying insects.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2015)

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