Birds of the World

    APODIFORMES: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)  
Genus: Calothorax (2 species)


Lucifer Sheartail
Lucifer Sheartail (Calothorax lucifer) Male
Range: NA: sw USA to c Mexico
Sierra Vista, Arizona, USA  
   
Photograph by Alan Schmierer   Image has been placed in the Public Domain.

Lucifer Sheartail
Lucifer Sheartail (Calothorax lucifer) Female
Range: NA: sw USA to c Mexico
Patagonia, Arizona, USA  
   
Photograph by Alan Schmierer   Image has been placed in the Public Domain.

Compare to Beautiful Sheartail. Note longer more curved bill.

Beautiful Sheartail
Beautiful Sheartail (Calothorax pulcher) Male
Range: MA: sc Mexico
Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
  Purple on crown in this photo is pollen.
   
Photograph by Amy McAndrews     Copyright and usage info

Very similar to Lucifer Sheartail, but bill is shorter and straighter.


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