Scissor-tailed hummingbird

Not to be confused with the red-billed streamertail, sometimes known in Jamaica as the scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird.

Scissor-tailed hummingbird
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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]

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Scissor-tailed Hummingbird Hylonympha macrocerca". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22687749A93167384. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687749A93167384.en. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (January 2022). "Hummingbirds". IOC World Bird List. v 12.1. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 27 May 2021