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Scissor-tailed hummingbird
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Not to be confused with the red-billed streamertail, sometimes known in Jamaica as the scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird.
The scissor-tailed hummingbird (Hylonympha macrocerca) is an Endangered species of hummingbird in the "mountain gems", tribe Lampornithini in subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Venezuela.[3][1][4]
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Scissor-tailed hummingbird | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Subfamily: | Trochilinae |
Tribe: | Lampornithini |
Genus: | Hylonympha Gould, 1873 |
Species: | H. macrocerca |
Binomial name | |
Hylonympha macrocerca Gould, 1873 | |
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