Wine-throated Hummingbird

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Wine-Throated Hummingbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Atthis
Species: A. ellioti
Binomial name
Atthis ellioti
Ridgway, 1878

The Wine-Throated Hummingbird (Atthis ellioti) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montanes and heavily degraded former forest. At 7 cm, it's the smallest bird within it's range.

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