Guanacaste Hummingbird

Guanacaste hummingbird
Conservation status
	; Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Amazilia
Species:	A. alfaroana
Binomial name
	Amazilia alfaroana; (Underwood, 1896)

Short description: Species of bird

The guanacaste hummingbird or Alfero's hummingbird^[2] (Amazilia alfaroana) is a possibly extinct species of hummingbird known only from a holotype collected in 1895 at the Miravalles Volcano in Costa Rica.

Taxonomy

It is usually treated as a subspecies of the Indigo-capped hummingbird or a hybrid between two unknown hummingbird species, but analysis of the holotype suggests it is its own species.^[3]

Conservation

It is possibly extinct, but the ecological stability of the area where the specimen was found indicates a possible undiscovered population still existing.^[4] The IUCN classifies it as critically endangered.^[5]

References

↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.
↑ Government of Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada (2009-10-08). "AMAZILIA ALFAROANA [1 record - TERMIUM Plus® — Search - TERMIUM Plus®"]. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=&index=frw&srchtxt=AMAZILIA ALFAROANA.
↑ Kirwan, Guy M.; Collar, Nigel J. (2016-11-10). "The 'foremost ornithological mystery of Costa Rica': Amazilia alfaroana Underwood, 1896". Zootaxa 4189 (2): zootaxa.4189.2.2. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27988731. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27988731/.
↑ "Lost Birds" (in en). http://www.rewild.org/lost-species/lost-birds.
↑ "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.

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[iucn_status_12_November_2021-1] "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.

[2] Government of Canada, Public Services and Procurement Canada (2009-10-08). "AMAZILIA ALFAROANA [1 record - TERMIUM Plus® — Search - TERMIUM Plus®"]. https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=&index=frw&srchtxt=AMAZILIA ALFAROANA.

[3] Kirwan, Guy M.; Collar, Nigel J. (2016-11-10). "The 'foremost ornithological mystery of Costa Rica': Amazilia alfaroana Underwood, 1896". Zootaxa 4189 (2): zootaxa.4189.2.2. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27988731. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27988731/.

[4] "Lost Birds" (in en). http://www.rewild.org/lost-species/lost-birds.

[5] "Guanacaste Hummingbird". 2020-08-30. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/119194112/178574309.

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Guanacaste hummingbird
Conservation status
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Amazilia
Species:	A. alfaroana
Binomial name
*Amazilia alfaroana* (Underwood, 1896)