Blue breast macilia

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Blue breast macilia
Blue-breasted macilia ♂

Blue-breasted macilia ♂

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Blue breast macilia
Scientific name
Amazilia amabilis
( Gould , 1853)

The blue-breasted parrot ( Amazilia amabilis ) is a species of bird in the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that includes the countries of Nicaragua , Costa Rica , Panama , Colombia, and Ecuador . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

Blue-breasted macilia ♀

The blue-breasted marvel reaches a body length of about 7.5 cm, whereby the straight beak with pink lower bill is about 18 mm. The upper side of the male shimmers green, the top of the head glitters green. The throat is dark with some glittering green on the side. The chest shimmers purple-blue, the rear part of the underside is greyish with a little green on the sides. The tail is blackish bronze. The female is colored similar to the male on the upper side, but the glitter on the top of the head is missing. The underside is pale greyish with many green speckles. The speckles are bluish on the chest. The tail is blackish bronze, but the outer control feathers are speckled with white.

Way of life

It looks for its food in the lower to middle strata . Often they sit on open branches that are relatively deep. Usually they hover in front of the flowers to get their nectar . She is considered a forest dweller. The behavior is aggressive and so she likes to chase other competitors.

Vocalizations

Males gather in isolated lek to sing. There they emit even, deep and beeping tsit, tstit, trsit ... calls at regular intervals . They sit on low-lying branches.

Subspecies

The species is considered to be monotypical . The subspecies Amazilia amabilis costaricensis described by Walter Edmond Clyde Todd in 1942 is now considered a synonym for the nominate form .

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the blue-breasted macilia

It is relatively seldom to be found on low plants of moist forests and secondary forests as well as their adjoining clearings, plantations and gardens in the humid lowlands in western Ecuador south to the province of Manabí and east to the province of Guayas or northwest to the province of Azuay . In the humid forest belt of the Esmeraldas province , it is mostly replaced by the rose mountain amazil. Most of the reports in Ecuador come from altitudes below 300 meters. In Colombia they can be found near the Pacific coast at altitudes of up to 1000 meters. Here it occurs on the middle reaches of the Río Magdalena in the south of the Departamento de Bolívar to the northwest of Cundinamarca .

Etymology and history of research

John Gould described the blue-breasted macilia under the name Trochilus (-?) Amabilis . He gave the Republic of New Granada as the place of discovery . He had received the type copy from Jules Bourcier . As early as 1827, René Primevère Lesson and Prosper Garnot described the rust-bellied amazilia under the name Orthorhynchus Amazilia . In 1843, 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 in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'empire Du Pérou, of an Inca heroine named Amazili. Only later was the blue-breasted macilia assigned to this genus. The species name "amabilis" is the Latin word for "amiable" and can be derived from "amare" for "love". "Costaricensis" refers to Costa Rica from which the analyzed bellows came.

literature

  • Robert Sterling Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield: Birds of Ecuador Field Guide: Status, Distribution, and Taxonomy . tape 1 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, ISBN 0-8014-8720-X (a).
  • Robert Sterling Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield: Birds of Ecuador Field Guide: Field Guide . tape 2 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, ISBN 0-8014-8721-8 (b).
  • Steven Leon Hilty , William Leroy Brown : A guide to the birds of Colombia . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 0-691-08372-X ( books.google.de ).
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • John Gould: On some new species of Trochilidae . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . tape 19 , no. 226 , 1853, pp. 115-116 ( 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 . 1 (zoology), no. 2 . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1826 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • René Primevère Lesson : Complément à l'histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches . In: L'Echo du Monde Savant (=  2 ). tape 10 , no. 32 , 1843, pp. 755-758 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Walter Edmond Clyde Todd: List of the Hummingbirds in the collection of the Carnegie Museum . In: Annals of the Carnegie Museum . tape 29 , no. 12 , 1942, pp. 217-370 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Blue-breasted Parrot ( Amazilia amabilis )  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Sterling Ridgely u. a. (2001b), p. 265.
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  3. ^ A b Walter Edmond Clyde Todd, p. 330.
  4. ↑ Robert Sterling Ridgely et al. a. (2001a), p. 357.
  5. ↑ Steven Leon Hilty et al. a., p. 273.
  6. ^ John Gould, p. 115.
  7. ↑ a b René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1826–1830), p. 683 (plate 31, figure 3)
  8. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1843), column 757
  9. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 43