Scissor-tailed hummingbird
| Scissor-tailed hummingbird | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Genus: | Hylonympha Gould, 1873 |
| Species: | H. macrocerca |
| Binomial name | |
| Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873 | |
The scissor-tailed hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca) is a bird species in the family Trochilidae, the only member of the genus Hylonympha. It is found only in Venezuela. In Jamaica, the Red-billed streamertail is also known as the scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
It was formerly classified as a Vulnerable species by the IUCN.[2] But new research has shown it to be rarer than it was believed. Consequently, it is uplisted to Endangered status in 2008.[1][3]
Footnotes
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Hylonympha macrocerca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ BLI (2004)
- ↑ BLI (2008)
References
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008): [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes]. Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.
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