Mexican Sheartail
Doricha eliza (Lesson, RP & Delattre, 1839)
Spanish: Colibrí Tijereta Mexicano
The Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza) is a hummingbird in the subfamily Trochilinae (mountain gems, bees and emeralds), tribe Mellisugini (bees). It weighs about 2.5 g and its bill is 23.1 mm long. It is found only in Mexico. Its IUCN Red List status is Near threatened, with a decreasing population.
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At a glance
- Weight
- 2.5 g, about 2 paperclips
- Bill
- 23.1 mm
- Lives in
- Shrubland
- Moves
- Stays put all year
- Red List status
- Near threatened, decreasing
- Endemic
- Found only in Mexico
Its place in the family
- Family Trochilidae hummingbirds
- Subfamily Trochilinae mountain gems, bees and emeralds
- Tribe Mellisugini bees
- Genus Doricha sheartails
What Doricha share: Males have deeply forked tails.
Where it lives · 1 country
Others in the genus Doricha
- Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura
Sources
Names: eBird/Clements Checklist (Cornell Lab of Ornithology). 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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