Beautiful sheartail
Calothorax pulcher Gould, 1859
The beautiful sheartail (Calothorax pulcher) is a species in the family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes. Recorded adults weigh 2.2 g to 2.8 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.
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Quick facts about the beautiful sheartail
- Weight
- 2.2 g – 2.8 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Nectarivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- shrublandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 2src for Young per litter or clutch
- Lifestyle
- Aerialsrc for Lifestyle
- Migration
- Sedentarysrc for Migration
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the beautiful sheartail live?
Not recorded
What is the beautiful sheartail?
The beautiful sheartail or beautiful hummingbird (Calothorax pulcher) is a species of hummingbird in tribe Mellisugini of subfamily Trochilinae, the "bee hummingbirds". It is endemic to Mexico.
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Is the beautiful sheartail endangered?
The beautiful sheartail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.
- LCLeast Concern
- NTNear Threatened
- VUVulnerable
- ENEndangered
- CRCritically Endangered
- EWExtinct in the Wild
- EXExtinct
Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.
How is the beautiful sheartail classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderApodiformes
- familyTrochilidae
- genusCalothorax
- SpeciesCalothorax pulcher Gould, 1859
Other names and names in other languages (35)
- Beautiful hummingbirdEnglish
- Beautiful hummingbirdEnglish
- colibrí d'altiplàCatalan
- kalypta křovinnáCzech
- kolibřík křovinnýCzech
- sïedn harddWelsh
- PragtskovjuvelDanish
- SchmucksternkolibriGerman
- SchmuckkolibriGerman
- belkolibroEsperanto
- Colibrí bonitoSpanish
- Colibrí MixtecoSpanish
- Colibrí oaxaqueñoSpanish
- Colibrí tijereta oaxaqueñoSpanish
- kaunokolibriFinnish
- Calypte charmantFrench
- Colibri charmantFrench
- pjegavotrba smaragdnicaCroatian
- gyönyörű kolibriHungarian
- Colibrì magnificoItalian
- シロハラアカヒゲハチドリJapanese
- paprastasis puošnusis kolibrisLithuanian
- PrachtkolibrieDutch
- fagerkolibriNorwegian
- koliberek wspaniałyPolish
- colibri-beloPortuguese
- beija-flor-bonitoPortuguese
- Украшенный колибриRussian
- Украшенный люциферRussian
- čmeľovec ozdobnýSlovak
- praktkolibriSwedish
- Mücevher KolibrisiTurkish
- колібрі-білозір чагарниковийUkrainian
- 华丽蜂鸟Chinese
- 華麗蜂鳥Chinese
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Relatives of the beautiful sheartail
Other species in the same genus Calothorax.
Lucifer sheartail
Calothorax lucifer
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the beautiful sheartail?
An adult beautiful sheartail weighs 2.2 g – 2.8 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Is the beautiful sheartail endangered?
The beautiful sheartail is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.
What kind of animal is the beautiful sheartail?
The beautiful sheartail (Calothorax pulcher) belongs to the family Trochilidae in the order Apodiformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
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Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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