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title: "Lucifer Hummingbird"
description: "Calothorax lucifer — Uccelli. The lucifer sheartail or lucifer hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer) is a medium-sized, 10 cm long, green hummingbird with a slightly curved bill and distinctive outward flare of its gorget feathers."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/lucifer-hummingbird
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Lucifer Hummingbird

> Calothorax lucifer — Uccelli. The lucifer sheartail or lucifer hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer) is a medium-sized, 10 cm long, green hummingbird with a slightly curved bill and distinctive outward flare of its gorget feathers.

- Scientific name: *Calothorax lucifer*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 2106
- Wikidata: [Q522173](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522173)
- iNaturalist taxon: [6371](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/6371)

## Names

- en: Lucifer Hummingbird
- de: Luzifersternkolibri
- es: Colibrí lucifer
- fr: Colibri lucifer
- pl: Koliberek pustynny

## Countries with the most observations

US (1118), MX (840)

## Summary

The lucifer sheartail or lucifer hummingbird (Calothorax lucifer) is a medium-sized, 10 cm long, green hummingbird with a slightly curved bill and distinctive outward flare of its gorget feathers. Its habitat is in high-altitude areas of northern Mexico and southwestern United States. It winters in central Mexico.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_sheartail

## Photo

![Lucifer Hummingbird](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lucifer-hummingbird/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chris (CP) and Pamela (PP) Pipes · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/54327907

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lucifer-hummingbird?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).