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Calliope Hummingbird
Selasphorus calliope (Gould, 1847)
Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
Calliope Hummingbird, Selasphorus calliope, breeds in western Canada and the western USA and spends the nonbreeding season in western Mexico. It is a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. Formerly placed in the genus Stellula, it is now included in Selasphorus. The bird takes its English name from Calliope, the Greek muse. It was described by Gould in 1847.
- Order
- Apodiformes
- Family
- Trochilidae — Hummingbirds
- Breeding range
- North America: sw Canada and w USA
- Nonbreeding range
- w Mexico
