Rose Mountain Amazonia

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Rose Mountain Amazonia
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Rose Mountain Amazonia ( Amazilia rosenbergi )

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Rose Mountain Amazonia
Scientific name
Amazilia Rosenbergi
( Boucard , 1895)

The Rosenbergamazilie ( Amazilia rosenbergi ), sometimes Purpurbrustamazilie called, is a species of bird from the family of hummingbirds (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that includes the South American countries Colombia and Ecuador . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The rose mountain amazil reaches a body length of approx. 8 cm, whereby the straight beak with pink lower beak is approx. 18 mm. The top of the male shimmers green. The throat glitters green while the chest glows blue. The rear lower part is grayish with green on the sides. This turns into white on the lower abdomen and lower rump. The tail is bronze with a blackish complexion. The top of the female is colored similar to that of the male. The underside is pale greyish with rich green spots on the throat and chest. The lower abdomen and rump are white. The tail is blackish bronze, but the outer control feathers are speckled with white.

Way of life

The birds are forest inhabitants and mostly move within the forest. They tend to look for their food in the lower to middle strata . Often they sit on open branches that are relatively deep. Usually they float in front of the flowers to get their nectar .

Vocalizations

In contrast to the blue-breasted macilia ( Amazilia amabilis ( Gould , 1853)), no singing is known in the lek . The male's song is described as three sharp, high pitched tsirp-tsu-tsrit tones.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the Rose Mountain Amazonia

The species is relatively common in the undergrowth and the middle strata of very humid forests and on their edges in the lowlands and in the mountain foothills in northwestern Ecuador. It is most common in the province of Esmeraldas , the adjacent province of Imbabura and the northwest of the province of Pichincha . It usually moves at altitudes below 600 meters, but it has also been collected on the Río Lita at an altitude of 900 meters. In Colombia it occurs from the middle reaches of the Río Atrato a little north of Quibdó south to Ecuador.

Subspecies

The species is considered to be monotypical .

Etymology and history of research

Adolphe Boucard described the rose mountain amazil under the name Polyerata rosenbergi . The type specimen came from the Río Dagua and was collected by William Frederick Henry Rosenberg (1868–1957), to whom the species name is dedicated. The genus Amazilia was introduced by Lesson in 1843 for the gold -masked hummingbird , the striped -tailed hummingbird , the cinnamon-bellied amazilie , the blue-throated star hummingbird and the longuemare sun nymph . The name comes from a novel by Jean-François Marmontel , who reported on an Inca heroine named Amazili in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'Empire Du Pérou .

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 ).
  • Adolphe Boucard: Genera of humming birds: being also a complete monograph of these birds . Pardy & Son, Bournemouth 1895, pp. 207-412 ( 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 ).

Web links

Commons : Rosenbergamazilie ( Amazilia rosenbergi )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Sterling Ridgely et al. a. (2001b), p. 265.
  2. ↑ Robert Sterling Ridgely et al. a. (2001b), p. 266.
  3. ↑ Robert Sterling Ridgely et al. a. (2001a), p. 358.
  4. ↑ Steven Leon Hilty et al. a., p. 273.
  5. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  6. ↑ Adolphe Boucard, p. 399.
  7. ↑ René Primevère Lesson u. a. (1826-1830), p. 683