Sparkling-tailed woodstar

Sparkling-tailed woodstar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Tilmatura
L. Reichenbach, 1854
Species: T. dupontii
Binomial name
Tilmatura dupontii
(Lesson, 1832)

The sparkling-tailed woodstar (Tilmatura dupontii), also known as the sparkling-tailed hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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