| Violet-headed hummingbird | |
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| Female in eastern Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Strisores |
| Order: | Apodiformes |
| Family: | Trochilidae |
| Tribe: | Trochilini |
| Genus: | Klais Reichenbach, 1854 |
| Species: | K. guimeti
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| Binomial name | |
| Klais guimeti (Bourcier, 1843)
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| Range of K. guimeti | |
The violet-headed hummingbird (Klais guimeti) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is the only species in the genus Klais.
It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Klais guimeti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22687167A93143544. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687167A93143544.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.