The red-billed streamertail, Trochilus polytmus, also known as the doctor bird or swallow-tail hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the tribe Trochilini of the subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Jamaica and is the country's national bird.
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Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Comparison
CITES Appendix Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Red-billed streamertail (Wikidata)
In Biome
Source Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Trochilus polytmus
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014)
2. Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web: Trochilus polytmus
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of ZoologyHabitat Regions, Trochilus polytmus
Habitat Regions tropical tropical terrestrial terrestrial
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive Impacts
Positive Impacts research and education pollinates crops controls pest population
Conservation Status: CITES
CITES Appendix II
In Biome: Tropical Rainforest, Habitat Regions, biome: rainforest
rainforest rainforest
View the Source 3. GBIF Species API
4. Red-billed streamertail (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q952376 (P225 taxon name)
- Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q952376
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Trochilidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
View the Source Red-billed streamertail (Wikipedia)
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