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Scintillant Hummingbird
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Scintillant Hummingbird
Selasphorus scintilla
The scintillant hummingbird (Selasphorus scintilla) is the smallest hummingbird within its range, which includes only the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama.
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Every page naming Selasphorus scintilla in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 6362.