Brown Andean Hummingbird
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The brown Andean hummingbird ( Coeligena wilsoni ) or sometimes the king musketeer is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that covers about 34,000 square kilometers in the South American countries of Colombia and Ecuador . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .
features
The brown Andean hummingbird reaches a body length of about 10.9 centimeters. The slender straight beak becomes about 33 millimeters long. In the field the bird looks mostly dark brown. The upper part of the back is copper red and turns olive towards the bottom. The color of the base is a dull brown. In between there is an amethystic spot on the neck . There are white spots on the side of the chest. The fork tail is bronze colored. In the female, the breast spot is smaller than in the male.
Habitat
The bird prefers wet mountain forest or dense forest edges. You can meet the hummingbird at heights between 1,000 and 1,300 meters. It has rarely been observed at higher or lower altitudes.
behavior
The brown Andean hummingbird likes to move deep in the forest or in dense underground. He gets his food from tubular flowers. He's more of a loner. He avoids other hummingbird species and is often surprisingly trusting.
Subspecies
At the moment, no subspecies of the Andean Brown Hummingbird are known. The species is therefore considered to be monotypical .
Etymology and history of research
Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier described the brown Andean hummingbird under the name Trochilus Wilsoni . The type specimen came from the area around Juntas near San Buenaventura in the then viceroyalty of New Granada . Later the species was assigned to the genus Coeligena . This name is derived from the Latin words "coelum or caelum" for "heaven" and "genus" for "descendant". The type is dedicated to the businessman and hobby ornithologist Thomas Bellerby Wilson (1807-1865) from Philadelphia .
literature
- Steven Leon Hilty , William Leroy Brown : A guide to the birds of Colombia . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 978-0-691-09250-8 .
- James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
- Adolphe Delattre , Jules Bourcier: Description de quinze espèce nouvelle de Trochilidèe, faisant partie de collections rapportées par M. Ad. De Lattre dont le précédentes excursions ont déjà enrichi plusieurs branches de L'histoire naturelle, et provenant de L'intérieur de Pérou, de républiques de l'Équateur, de la Nouvelle-Grenade et del'isthme de Panama . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 6 , 1846, pp. 305-312 ( online [accessed March 31, 2014]).
Web links
- Coeligena wilsoni inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
- BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Coeligena wilsoni . Retrieved March 31, 2014.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Brown Inca (Coeligena wilsoni) in the Internet Bird Collection
- Brown Andean Hummingbird ( Coeligena wilsoni ) at Avibase; accessed on March 31, 2014.
- Coeligena wilsoni in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved March 31, 2014.
- xeno-canto: sound recordings - Brown Inca ( Coeligena wilsoni )