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Tepui Hummingbird

Saucerottia viridigaster cupreicauda

Classification

Class
Aves

The copper-tailed hummingbird (Saucerottia cupreicauda) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is native to the tepuis of Venezuela and nearby areas of Brazil and Guyana; it is a vagrant in French Guiana. Taxonomy and systematics The copper-tailed hummingbird was formally described in 1884 by the English naturalists Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman based on specimens collected by Henry Whitely near Mount Roraima in Guyana.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 97