Species profile
Mexican Sheartail
Doricha eliza
Quick answer
Disjunct in arid s Mexico (Veracruz and Yucatán Peninsula)
- Scientific name
- Doricha eliza
- Family
- Trochilidae
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Genus
- Doricha
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
Recording Mexican Sheartail in your journal
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