Green breast mango ribri

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Green breast mango ribri
Green breast mango

Green breast mango

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Subfamily : Polytminae
Genre : Anthracothorax
Type : Green breast mango ribri
Scientific name
Anthracothorax prevostii
( Lesson, RP , 1832)

The green-breasted mango ( Anthracothorax prevostii ) or green-breasted mango is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that extends over parts of Mexico , Guatemala , Belize , El Salvador , Costa Rica , Nicaragua , Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador and Peru . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

Green breast mango

The green-breasted mango tibri reaches a body length of about 11.5 to 12 cm, with the beak about 1.33 to 1.5 larger than the head. The male's beak is black. The black throat is lined with a glittering blue-green to bluish beard and chest. Occasionally the black of the throat blends into the color of the chest area. The rest of the underside is blue-green, the sides green. The under tail-coverts are dark purple. The top of the head, the neck and the ear area, as well as the top, are deep green. The central control feathers are dark bronze green, the rest of the tail purple to reddish purple. The control springs are lined with black. The throat of the females and half of the underside is whitish with a black line on the neck that turns glittering blue-green downwards. The chin is white, the sides and flanks green. The under tail-coverts appear dark with wide white borders. The top of the head, the ear covers, the nape and the top are green as in the male. The central rudder feathers are dark bronze-green, the rest of the tail blue-black with white spots, often with a broad purple band at the base. Immature green-breasted mango colibris are similar to females, except that the chin and top of the throat are completely white with occasional black spots. The white seams on the throat and chest is cinnamon to brown. The outer control feathers of the males have a distinct purple base.

Way of life

The green-breasted mango tibri usually sits on thicker branches and twigs. Here he also builds his nest. He gets his food from the lower to the upper strata . He spreads his tail. The breeding season of the green-breasted mango colibri lasts from March to June on the Atlantic slopes and from October to February in the east of El Salvador.

Vocalizations

The call sounds like pretty hard chirping that it repeats over and over again from time to time and sounds like chik, chik, chik . Occasionally it gives off a high, sharp sip or sik or a high, high-pitched, relatively thin chirping in the fighter flight. That high thin call then sounds like Tsi si-si-si-si-si . But mostly they are calm.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the green breast mango colibris

The green-breasted Mangocolibri prefers semi-open terrain with scattered individual tall trees, forest edges and clearings.

Subspecies

There are five known subspecies:

  • Anthracothorax prevostii prevostii ( Lesson, RP , 1832) occurs in eastern Mexico via Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador.
  • Anthracothorax prevostii gracilirostris Ridgway , 1910 is distributed from El Salvador to central Costa Rica.
  • Anthracothorax prevostii hendersoni ( Cory , 1887) occurs on San Andrés and Providencia east of Nicaragua.
  • Anthracothorax prevostii viridicordatus Cory , 1913 is distributed in northeastern Colombia and northern Venezuela.
  • Anthracothorax prevostii iridescens ( Gould , 1861) occurs in western Colombia, south-west Ecuador and north-west Peru.

The status of A. p. iridescens is controversial in science. Some authors see them as a subspecies of the black-breasted mango ( Anthracothorax nigricollis ( Vieillot , 1817)) and still other authors even as a separate species of Anthracothorax iridescens .

Etymology and history of research

René Primevère Lesson described the green-breasted mango tibri under the name Trochilus prevostii . He had received the type specimen from Florent Prévost without knowing which part of South America it came from. Friedrich Boie introduced the genus Anthracothorax as early as 1831 . It was only later that the green breast mango was assigned to the genus. This name is derived from the Greek "anthrax, anthrakos ανθραξ, ανθρακος " for "coal, precious being" and "thōrax, thōrakos θωραξ, θωρακος " for "breast". The species name is dedicated to the man from whom Lesson received the type specimen. Hendersoni is dedicated to Robert Henderson, who collected for the Smithsonian Institution in the West Indies . Iridescens can be derived from the Latin word for "iridescentis" for "shimmering, shimmering" or "iris" for "rainbow". Viridicordatus is derived from the Latin "viridis" for "green" and "cordis" for "heart". Gracilirostris is a Latin word composed of "gracilis" for "slim" and "-rostris, rostrum" for "-beaked, beak".

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 .
  • René Primevère Lesson: Histoire naturelle des colibris suivie d'un supplément à l'Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches: ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes: et dédié AM le Baron Cuvier . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1830 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Robert Ridgway: Diagnoses of new birds of Micropodidae and Trochilidae . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 23 , 1910, pp. 53-56 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Gould: An introduction to the Trochilidæ: or family of humming-birds . Taylor and Francis, London 1861 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Barney Cory: Descriptions of Six Supposed New Species of Birds from the Islands of Old Providence and St. Andrews, Caribbean Sea . In: The Auk . tape 4 , no. 3 , 1887, p. 177-180 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Barney Cory: Descriptions of twenty-eight new species and subspecies of neotropical birds . In: Field Museum of Natural History Publication 167 (=  Ornithological Series ). tape 1 , no. 7 , 1913, pp. 283-292 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Friedrich Boie: Comments on species and some ornithological families and clans . In: Isis von Oken . tape 24 , 1831, pp. 538-548 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • James Vanderbeek Van Remsen Jr., Frank Garfield Stiles III, Jimmy Adair McGuir: Classification of the Polytminae (Aves: Trochilidae) . In: Zootaxa . tape 3957 , no. 1 , 2015, p. 143-150 , doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.3957.1.13 ( researchgate.net ).

Web links

Commons : Green-breasted Mangocolibri ( Anthracothorax prevostii )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Steve NG Howell u. a, p. 397.
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  3. ↑ a b c René Primevère Lesson (1830-32), pp. 87-88, plate 24.
  4. ^ Robert Ridgway, p. 55
  5. ^ A b Charles Barney Cory (1887), p. 177.
  6. ^ Charles Barney Cory (1913), p. 286.
  7. ^ John Gould, p. 65.
  8. ↑ James Vanderbeek Van Remsen Jr. u. a, p. 146.
  9. ^ Friedrich Boie, p. 545.
  10. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 49.
  11. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 207.
  12. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 403.
  13. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 176.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Boie arranged the genus the Jamaica Mango Hummingbird ( Anthracothorax mango ( Linnaeus , 1758)), the blue star Antilles Kolibri ( Eulampis holosericeus ( Linnaeus , 1758)), Purple Kehl Kolibri ( Eulampis jugularis ( Linnaeus , 1766)) (Syn: Trochilus violaceus ), Smaragdkehl- Mangokolibri ( Anthracothorax viridigula ( Boddaert , 1783)) (Syn: Trochilus gramineus ) belonging to the genus.