White-tailed goldenthroat

White-tailed goldenthroat
White-tailed goldenthroat at Dourado, São Paulo state, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Polytmus
Species: P. guainumbi
Binomial name
Polytmus guainumbi
Pallas, 1764

The white-tailed goldenthroat (Polytmus guainumbi) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

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