Oasis Hummingbird

Oasis Hummingbird
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Rhodopis
L. Reichenbach, 1854
Species: R. vesper
Binomial name
Rhodopis vesper
Lesson, 1829

The Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in coastal regions of Peru in a 100–200 km wide strip that extends the length of Peru's coastline, about 3000 km. It is also found in an adjacent population in Chile; a second disjunct population in coastal Chile exists 2000 km to the south, in a 75 by 200 km coastal strip.

The Oasis Hummingbird's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

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