Bronze-tailed Comet

Bronze-tailed Comet
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Polyonymus
Heine, 1863
Species: P. caroli
Binomial name
Polyonymus caroli
Bourcier, 1847

The Bronze-tailed Comet (Polyonymus caroli) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Polyonymus. It is endemic to scrub and forest-edge at altitudes of 2,100-3,400 m. (6,900-11,150 ft) in the Andes of Peru.

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