Beautiful sheartail

The beautiful sheartail or beautiful hummingbird (Calothorax pulcher) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in southern-central Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. Small hummingbird within arid bushes and shrubs in dry inland areas of southwestern Mexico. It feeds at all levels, very often on cactus flowers.

Beautiful sheartail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Calothorax
Species:
C. pulcher
Binomial name
Calothorax pulcher
Gould, 1859

Conservation

This species has a very large range and therefore does not approach vulnerable thresholds under the range size criterion of the IUCN. The population trend appears to be stable and therefore the species does not approach the trend criterion in order to be listed as vulnerable (> 30% decrease in ten years or three generations). Population size may be moderately small to large, but it is not believed to approach vulnerable thresholds as there's more than 10,000 mature individuals with an estimated continuous decline of> 10% over ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure. For these reasons, the species is rated as least concern.

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Calothorax pulcher". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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