Beryl lamacilia

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Beryl lamacilia
Beryl lamacilia

Beryl lamacilia

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Beryl lamacilia
Scientific name
Amazilia beryllina
( Deppe , 1830)

The beryl lamazilia ( Amazilia beryllina ) is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that includes parts of the United States , Mexico , Guatemala , El Salvadors, and Honduras . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The beryl lamacilia reaches a body length of about 9.5 to 10 centimeters with a weight of 4 to 4.4 grams. The male has a straight black beak that is reddish at the base of the lower mandible. The top of the head, the neck and the back are green, a color that fades into brown at the rump and is purple at the top of the tail. The neck and chest are glittering green. The belly is greyish cinnamon in color. The under tail coverts are cinnamon with white borders. The color of the hand and arm wings is noticeably reddish brown. The tail is deep reddish brown, with the central control feathers being dark purple, making it appear black from close up. The females are similar to the males with the neck being less green and the belly pale light gray. Immature males resemble adult males. Immature females are yellowish cinnamon colored on the neck and chest with green spots on the sides. They glitter green and have a greyish cinnamon-colored belly.

behavior

They crouch and feed in practically all strata . They are usually dominant over other species when it comes to the territory of flowering trees or flowering slopes. They breed from June to October.

Vocalizations

The call sounds like a boring, rather hard and siren- like dzzzzir or dzzzzit or a more fluid, rolled siren- like dzzzzrrt that is repeated over and over again at times. The vocals occasionally vary slightly with a gruff sounding and usually two lisping introductory tones, such as ssi, kirr-i-rr, kirr-i-rr or sirrr, ki-ti kdik or sssi-ir sssiir chit-chit, chit-chit etc. sound.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the beryl lamacilia

The beryl lamacilli prefers to be found in wooded areas, especially with oaks and their edges, in clearings and plantations. Here they stay at heights between 600 and 2000 meters: locally they also come to heights of up to 50 meters after their brood.

Subspecies

So far, five subspecies are known.

  • Amazilia beryllina viola ( Miller, W , 1905) - This subspecies occurs in southeastern Arizona as well as western and northwestern Mexico.
  • Amazilia beryllina. beryllina ( Deppe , 1830) - The nominate form occurs in the central area of Oaxaca .
  • Amazilia beryllina lichtensteini Moore, RT , 1950 - This subspecies is common in the eastern part of Oaxaca and western Chiapa .
  • Amazilia beryllina sumichrasti Salvin , 1891 - This subspecies occurs in central and southern Chiapas.
  • Amazilia beryllina devillei ( Bourcier & Mulsant , 1848) - The distribution area of ​​this subspecies extends over the countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

Etymology and history of research

Pierre Guillaume Deppe published the beryl lamacilia under the name Trochilus beryllinus . In 1843 René Primevère Lesson introduced the new generic name Amazilia for the gold - masked hummingbird , the striped - tailed hummingbird , the cinnamon-bellied hummingbird (syn .: Ornysmia cinnamomea ), the blue-throated star hummingbird (syn .: Ornymia rufula ) and the longuemare sun nymph . He did not mention the rust-bellied amazilia ( Amazilia amazilia ). The name comes from a novel by Jean-François Marmontel , who reported on an Inca heroine named Amazili in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'empire Du Pérou . »Beryllinus« is the Latin word for » beryl , crystalline«. The word can also be derived from the Greek "bēryllos βηρυλλος ". "Viola" is the Latin word for "violet". "Lichtensteini" is dedicated to Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein . “Sumichrasti” is dedicated to his collector Adrien Jean Louis François Sumichrast . Finally, »devillei« honors  Émile Deville .

literature

  • Steve NG Howell, Sophie W. Webb: A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America . Oxford University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-854012-0 .
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Pierre Guillaume Deppe: List of prices for mammals, birds, amphibians, fish and crabs, which were collected by Messrs. Deppe and Schiede in Mexico, and from the authorized representative in Berlin against cash payment in Preuss. Courant to be obtained . Private print by Ferdinand Deppe, Berlin 1830 ( reprint online in Journal für Ornithologie (1863) ).
  • Waldron DeWitt Miller: List of birds collected in Southern Sinalo, Mexico by JH Batty during 1903-1904 . In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . tape 21 , no. 22 , 1905, pp. 339-369 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Robert Thomas Moore: A new race of the species, Amazilia beryllina, from Southern Mexico . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 63 , 1950, pp. 59-60 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Osbert Salvin: Descriptions of new species of Upupæ and Trochili in the collection of the British Museum . In: The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History (=  6 ). tape 7 , 1891, p. 374-378 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Jules Bourcier, Étienne Mulsant ,: Description de quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches . In: Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne . 1848, p. 269-275 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • René Primevère Lesson: Complément à l'Histoire naturelles des oiseaux-mouches . In: L'Écho du monde savant et l'Hermès: journal analytique des nouvelles et des cours scientifiques . tape 8 , no. 2 , 1843, p. 755-785 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • René Primevère Lesson , Prosper Garnot: Voyage autour du monde exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère et conformément aux instructions de SEM Marquis de Clermont- Tonnerre, ministre de la marine; et publié sou les auspices de son excellence Mgr le Cte ​​de Chabrol, ministre de la Marine et des colonies, par ML Dupppery, capitaine de frégate. chevalier de Saint-Louis et membre de la legion d'honaire, commandant de l'expédition . tape 1 : Zoology , No. 2 . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1828 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Beryllamazilie ( Amazilia beryllina )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Steve NG Howell u. a., p. 410.
  2. ↑ Steve NG Howell et al. a., p. 411.
  3. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  4. ^ Waldron DeWitt Miller, p. 353.
  5. ↑ a b Pierre Guillaume Deppe, p. 1.
  6. ↑ a b Robert Thomas Moore, p. 60.
  7. ^ Osbert Salvin, p. 376.
  8. ↑ Jules Bourcier et al. a., p. 272.
  9. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1843), column 757
  10. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1826–1830), p. 683 (plate 31, figure 3)
  11. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 71.
  12. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 402.
  13. ^ Osbert Salvin, p. 377.
  14. ↑ Jules Bourcier et al. a., p. 273.