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 LC    Calliope Hummingbird* Id (Atlas):
    Selasphorus calliope

Description (10)
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Family
Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Size
7.50 - 8 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1847)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland and shrubland, moist shrubland. From 180 - 3,400 m.

Range (Guide)
Canada, Mexico, USA (B).

South-western Canada (central and eastern British Columbia and south-western Alberta) and western USA in Rocky Mts and Sierra Nevada (Washington to California and east to Wyoming and western Colorado). Winters in west-central and south-central Mexico (south-eastern Sinaloa to east-central Oaxaca).
 
Population
Estimated population is 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

 
Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) [XC578102]
     by Richard E. Webster from Spanish Ranch, Plumas County, California, United States (song, mechanical display sound from dives)

 
Calliope Hummingbird (Selasphorus calliope) [XC412986]
     by Bruce Lagerquist from Kinney Creek drainage,Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho, United States (song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Mellisuga. Alternatively lumped into Archilochus.

Proposed subspecies lowei (Guerrero) based on a winter specimen, and claimed differences fall within normal variation.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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