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Red-tailed Comet
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Red-tailed Comet

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Red-tailed Comet

Sappho sparganurus

The red-tailed comet (Sappho sparganurus) is a medium-sized hummingbird belonging to the family Trochilidae.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 367514.