Napodegen wings

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Napodegen wings
Napodegen wing ♂

Napodegen wing ♂

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Epee wing ( Campylopterus )
Type : Napodegen wings
Scientific name
Campylopterus villaviscensio
( Bourcier , 1851)

The Napodegen wing ( Campylopterus villaviscensio ) is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae) found in Colombia , Ecuador and Peru . The IUCN classifies the population as “ Near Threatened ”.

features

Napodegen wing ♀

The Napodegen wing reaches a body length of 11.5 cm, with the relatively long, straight beak about 2.8 cm. The top of the male's head glistens emerald green, the rest of the top shimmers green. Behind the eyes they have a little white spot. Throat and chest glitter purple-blue, the belly is gray with green round spots. Most of the tail is steel blue, with the central control feathers being metal green. The top of the females shimmers green, but glitters more noticeably on the back of the skull. The postocular spot is smaller than that of the male. The underside is uniformly gray. The tail is similar to the male, but the outer feathers are speckled with white.

behavior

They seem to collect their nectar relatively close to the ground. The plants they will fly to include heliconias , bromeliads, and other plants. They hunt insects in flight.

Reproduction

Not much is known about their breeding behavior. They were observed in breeding mood from October to November.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the Napodegen wing

Mostly they are in the forest along streams and rivers. Sometimes they venture to the edge of the forest to look for flowering shrubs. They tend to move in the lower strata of the mountain forests of the foothills and subtropical zones of the eastern Andes. Here they can be found at altitudes between 900 and 1700 meters. Smaller populations are known in the west of the Napo province near the Sumaco volcano , south as far as the Zamora Chinchipe province in the Cordillera del Cóndor . Protected areas where they occur are the Sumaco Napo Galeras National Park and the Podocarpus National Park . In 1986, Tristan J. Davis discovered specimens for the first time in the valley of the Río Marañón about 375 kilometers from the Ecuadorian border. In 1998, Luis Augusto Mazariegos Hurtado and Paul George William Salaman first discovered the species in the Departamento de Nariño in Colombia.

Etymology and history of research

Jules Bourcier described the Napodegen wing under the name Trochilus Villaviscensio . The type specimen came from the province of Napo . Already in 1827 William Swainson introduced the new genus Campylopterus , which was later assigned to the Napodegen wing. This word is derived from the Greek »kampylos καμπύλος « for »curved, curved« and »-pteros, pteron πτερο « for »-fluted, wing«. The species name villaviscensio is dedicated to the Ecuadorian geographer, botanist and explorer Manuel Villavicencio Montúfar (1804–1871), who was governor of the Napo province at this time .

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 .
  • Robert Sterling Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield: Birds of Ecuador Field Guide: Field Guide . tape 2 . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2001, ISBN 0-8014-8720-X .
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Jules Bourcier: Note on our espèces de trochilidées . In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences . tape 32 , 1851, pp. 186-188 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
  • William Swainson: On several Groups and Forms in Ornithology, no hitherto defined . In: The Zoological journal . tape 3 , no. 11 , 1827, pp. 343-363 (English, biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Étienne Mulsant, Édouard Verreaux: Histoire naturelle des oiseaux-mouches ou colibris constituant la famille des trochilidés . tape 1 . Deyrolle, Paris 1874 ( online ).
  • John Todd Zimmer : Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 56, The genera Eutoxeres, Campylopterus, Eupetomena, and Florisuga . In: American Museum novitates . No. 1450 , 1950, pp. 1–15 ( digitallibrary.amnh.org (PDF; 1.293 MB)).
  • Tristan J. Davis: Distribution and Natural History of Some Birds from the Departments of San Martin and Amazonas, Northern Peru . In: The Condor . tape 88 , no. 1 , 1986, pp. 50–56 ( online (PDF; 943 kB)).
  • Luis Augusto Mazariegos Hurtado, Paul George William Salaman: The hummingbirds of Nariño, Colombia . In: Cotinga . tape 10 , 1998, pp. 30–36 ( online (1.3 MB) [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Napodegen wing ( Campylopterus villaviscensio )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Sterling Ridgely u. a. (Volume 2), p. 251.
  2. ^ A b Napo Sabrewing (Campylopterus villaviscensio) at HBW
  3. ↑ Robert Sterling Ridgely et al. a. (Volume 1), p. 342.
  4. ^ Tristan J. Davis, p. 52.
  5. ^ Luis Augusto Mazariegos Hurtado et al. a., p. 34.
  6. ↑ Jules Bourcier, p. 187.
  7. ^ William Swainson, p. 358.
  8. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 87
  9. ↑ Étienne Mulsant et al. a., p. 131.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Swainson assigned to the genus the gray-breasted rapier wing ( Campylopterus largipennis ( Boddaert , 1783)) and the red-tailed rapier wing ( Campylopterus falcatus ( Swainson , 1821)).