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Calypte costae
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species of bird
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderApodiformes
- FamilyTrochilidae
Maximum longevity: 6 years
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,007
- With media
- 120
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Collections
- MVZ, MSB
- Recorded in
- United States
Bird sounds
- song· United States· quality A
- song· United States· quality A
- song· United States· quality A
- song· United States· quality A
via Xeno-canto
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Has part
- rump
- Parent taxon
- Calypte
- Named after
- Louis Marie Pantaleon Costa
- Mass
- 0.46
- Image
- Costas-hummingbird.JPG
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Calypte costae
- Commons gallery
- Calypte costae
- taxon common name
- beija-flor-de-cabeça-púrpura
- taxon name
- Calypte costae
- diel cycle
- diurnality
- short name
- C. costae
- taxon author citation
- (Bourcier, 1839)
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Encyclopedic overview
Costa's hummingbird (Calypte costae) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It breeds in the arid, semi-arid and Mediterranean climate zones of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, mainly in Southern California and the Baja California Peninsula. Like many hummingbirds in the region, it can be found on the Pacific coast, often visiting backyard hummingbird feeders and gardens with flowering plants, as well as in more wild ecosystems, such as the conifer and oak forests, chaparral, and high desert habitats found further inland. When not in the US, the species often winters in western Mexico.
Taxonomy
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