Red-billed streamertail
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The red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to Jamaica and is the national bird of the country.[4][5][6]
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Red-billed streamertail | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Strisores |
Order: | Apodiformes |
Family: | Trochilidae |
Genus: | Trochilus |
Species: | T. polytmus |
Binomial name | |
Trochilus polytmus | |
Synonyms | |
Trochilus polytmus polytmus[3] |
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