Cinnamon Hummingbird

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Cinnamon Hummingbird

The Cinnamon Hummingbird (Amazilia rutila) is found from west Mexico to Costa Rica. It prefers deciduous forest, brushy savanna, edges, and second growth. Adults are 9.5 cm (3 inches) in height and 4.8 g in weight.

Above is bronzy-green, and its upper tail-coverts edged with rufous. Retrices chestnut-rufous, edged with bronze at tip. Entire underparts cinnamon-rufous, palest on throat. Bill of male red whit black tip, of female with upper mandible mostly black. Feet black. Visits flowering trees, shrubs, and epiphytes.

Common Name: Cinnamon Hummingbird
Scientific Name: Amazilia rutila
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