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A photo of a Xantus's Hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), male
Xantus's Hummingbird, Male

Xantus's Hummingbird

Basilinna xantusii

Xantus's hummingbird (Basilinna xantusii), previously known as the black-fronted hummingbird, is a species in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to the Baja California Peninsula. Xantus's hummingbird is 8.5 to 9.5 cm (3.3 to 3.7 in) long. . Their bills are straight and about 1.7 cm (0.67 in) long; males' are red with a black tip. Females' maxilla is black with a pinkish base and their mandible pinkish red with a black tip. Males have a golden green to emerald green crown, nape, and upperparts with rufous edging on the uppertail coverts. Their forehead and chin are black, their face mostly black with a wide white stripe behind the eye, and their throat iridescent emerald green. Their underparts are cinnamon with some green mottling on the flanks and pale cinnamon undertail coverts. Their tail is rufous chestnut; the innermost pair of feathers have wide iridescent green edges and the other four pairs thin green edges. The females' face is blackish brown with a pale buffy stripe behind the eye. Their forehead is dull brownish and their upperparts iridescent golden green with some rufous edging on the uppertail coverts. The underparts including the throat and undertail coverts are pale to medium cinnamon. Their tail's central pair of feathers are golden green with a rufous shaft and the other four pairs dark rufous that pales towards the end, a black and bronzy green band near the end, and thin white tips.
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Leonardo Guzmán
Sunday 09 Feb 2020 - 8:43am
Mexico
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Leonardo Guzmán
Friday 07 Feb 2020 - 11:24am
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Lucas Corneliussen
Thursday 18 Apr 2019 - 1:49pm
Mexico
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Ed Jenkins
Tuesday 27 Feb 2018 - 6:00am
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