Beautiful sheartail

Beautiful sheartail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Calothorax
Species: C. pulcher
Binomial name
Calothorax pulcher
Gould, 1859

The beautiful sheartail or beautiful hummingbird (Calothorax pulcher) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found only in Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

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