Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza Scientific name definitions

Carlos A. Soberanes-González and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated March 1, 2013

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Recommended Citation

Soberanes-González, C. A. and T. S. Schulenberg (2020). Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.mexshe1.01
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