Blue-tailed Macilia

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Blue-tailed Macilia
Blue-tailed Macilia

Blue-tailed Macilia

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Blue-tailed Macilia
Scientific name
Amazilia cyanura
Gould , 1859

The blue- tailed mazilia ( Amazilia cyanura ) is a species of bird in the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The distribution area of ​​this species includes parts of Mexico , Guatemala , Honduras , El Salvador , Nicaragua and Costa Rica . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The blue-tailed macaw reaches a body length of about 9 to 10 cm with a weight of 4 g. The male's black, straight, medium-sized beak is reddish only at the base of the lower mandible. The top of the head, the neck and the back are bronze-green, with the rump reflecting copper-colored to purple. The base of the outer arm wings and the inner hand wings are largely reddish brown. The underside glitters gold-green. The upper tail-coverts vary from purple-purple to deep blue, the bluish lower-tail coverts have gray to reddish-brown edges. The appearance of the females resembles that of the males, but they have a smaller wing spot. They show a little more gray color on the throat and stomach. The hems of the under tail coverts are broadly lined with gray.

Behavior and nutrition

They get their nectar from the flowers of all strata . You can often see them on the flowers of the genus Inga . They also hunt insects in flight.

Vocalizations

The reputation of the blue-tailed parrot has been little explored. It can be assumed that it resembles that of the steel-green amazilie and consists of 5 to 6 tones that sound like tzi-tzii-tzup… Tschuptschuptschup . One of the sounds they make is a bumpy chatter.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the blue-tailed parrot

The blue-tailed parrot lives in wet and dry areas with pine and oak, in secondary vegetation, in clearings and semi-open to open areas with scrub. Occasionally you can also see them in cultivated landscapes such as coffee plantations. In Honduras it lives in the dry mountain slopes facing the Pacific and in the more humid deciduous habitats of the Caribbean coast. They are mostly found at altitudes below 1000 meters. The nominate form moves at altitudes from sea level to 1200 meters, A. c. guatemalae between 150 and 1800 meters. Recent data suggest that A. c. impatiens Primary forest preferred at altitudes between 500 and 1000 meters.

Subspecies

There are three known subspecies:

  • Amazilia cyanura guatemalae ( Dearborn , 1907) occurs in southern Mexico to southern Guatemala. The subspecies has a slightly more purple tint with less bronze coloring in the back area. The rump and on the wings show less reddish brown color.
  • Amazilia cyanura cyanura Gould , 1859 is widespread in southern Honduras, eastern El Salvador and northwestern Nicaragua.
  • Amazilia cyanura impatiens ( Bangs , 1906) occurs in north-western and central Costa Rica. The reddish brown of the wings is significantly larger in area, the under tail-coverts are wider and darker, and lined with reddish brown.

Reproduction

So far there is no data on breeding biology.

Etymology and history of research

John Gould described the blue- tailed parrot under its current name Amazilia cyanura . The type specimen came from Edward Belcher , who had brought it back from El Realejo . The board and the accompanying text were part of the 18th delivery from 1859. 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 ). This name comes from a novel by Jean-François Marmontel , who reported in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'empire Du Pérou, about an Inca heroine named Amazili. The species name is a word from the Greek "cyanos κυανος " for "dark blue" and "-ouros, oura -ουρος, ουρα " for "-tailed, tail". "Guatemalae" refers to the country of Guatemala. "Impatiens" is made up of the Latin words "in-" for "not" and "patiens, patientis, pati" for "enduring, enduring".

migration

The blue-tailed parrot is considered to be a stationary bird , which shows a tendency to the line bird with migratory movements at altitude in different seasons .

literature

  • André-Alexander Weller , Peter Boesman in: Josep del Hoyo , Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal, David Andrew Christie, Eduardo de Juana: Blue-tailed Hummingbird (Amazilia cyanura). In: Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • John Gould: A monograph of the Trochilidæ, or family of humming-birds . tape 5 , delivery 18. Taylor and Francis, London 1859 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Frederick Herschel Waterhouse: The dates of publication of some of the zoological works of the late John Gould, FRS RH Porter, London 1885 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ned Dearborn: Catalog of a collection of birds from Guatemala . In: Publication Field Museum of Natural History (=  Ornithological series ). tape 1 , no. 3 , 1907, pp. 69-138 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Outram Bangs: Notes on birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui with descriptions of new forms and new records for Costa Rica . In: Proceedings of The Biological Society of Washington . tape 19 , 1906, pp. 101-112 ( 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 (=  zoology . Volume 1 , no. 2 ). Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1828 ( 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 ).
  • Juan Francisco Ornelas, Clementina González, Alejandro Espinosa de los Monteros, Flor Rodríguez ‐ Gómez, Luis M. García ‐ Feria: In and out of Mesoamerica: temporal divergence of Amazilia hummingbirds pre ‐ dates the orthodox account of the completion of the Isthmus of Panama . In: Journal of Biogeography . tape 41 , no. 1 , 2014, p. 168-181 , doi : 10.1111 / jbi.12184 ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h André-Alexander Weller u. a.
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  3. ^ Ned Dearborn, p. 97.
  4. ^ A b John Gould, plate 315 & text.
  5. ^ Outram Bangs, p. 104.
  6. ↑ Frederick Herschel Waterhouse, p. 46. The year of publication, delivery of all Kolibritafeln is shown with text in A monograph of the Trochilidæ .
  7. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1843), column 757.
  8. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1827), p. 683 (plate 3).
  9. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 128.
  10. ^ Ned Dearborn, p. 69.
  11. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 203.