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Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza



Family: Trochilidae (Hummingbirds)

Authority: (Lesson & DeLattre, 1839)

Red List Category

Criteria: C1

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Justification of Red List category
This species occurs in two disjunct areas in Mexico; its population is small. It is locally threatened by habitat loss and degradation, thus its population is suspected to be declining slowly. For these reasons the species is listed as Near Threatened.



Population size: 2500-9999 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 108,000 km2

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Realm - Neotropical
Land-mass type - continent
IUCN System - Terrestrial

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Mexican Sheartail Doricha eliza. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/mexican-sheartail-doricha-eliza on 25/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 25/12/2024.