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Lucifer Hummingbird
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Lucifer Hummingbird

Calothorax lucifer (Swainson, 1827)

Spanish: Colibrí Lucifer · IOC: Lucifer sheartail

The Lucifer Hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 3.3 g and its bill is 23.5 mm long. It lives in the United States and Mexico. Its IUCN Red List status is Least concern, with a stable population.

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At a glance

Weight
3.3 g, about 3 paperclips
Bill
23.5 mm
Lives in
Shrubland
Moves
Stays put all year
Red List status
Least concern, stable

Its place in the family

  1. Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
  2. Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
  3. Tribe Mellisugini bees
  4. Genus Calothorax

Where it lives · 2 countries

Others in the genus Calothorax

Sources

Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), IOC World Bird List. Groups: Dickinson & Remsen (2013) and McGuire et al. (2014). Weight, bill, habitat and movement: AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022, CC BY 4.0). Countries: BirdLife International DataZone, checked against eBird records via GBIF. Red List status and trend: BirdLife International, the IUCN Red List authority for birds.

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