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Purple-crowned Fairy
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Purple-crowned Fairy
Heliothryx barroti
The purple-crowned fairy (Heliothryx barroti) is a large hummingbird that breeds in the lowlands and hills from southeastern Mexico south to southwestern Ecuador.
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Every page naming Heliothryx barroti in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 6387.