Lucifer Hummingbird
Calothorax lucifer
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The lucifer sheartail or lucifer hummingbird is a medium-sized, 10 cm long, green hummingbird with a slightly curved bill and distinctive outward flare of its gorget feathers. Its habitat is in high-altitude areas of northern Mexico and southwestern United States. It winters in central Mexico.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Genus
- Calothorax