Red-breasted Andean Hummingbird

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Red-breasted Andean Hummingbird
Rusty Andean Hummingbird (Aglaeactis castelnaudii) (lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter after a drawing by John Gould, 1857)

Rusty Andean Hummingbird ( Aglaeactis castelnaudii )
(lithograph by Henry Constantine Richter after a drawing by John Gould , 1857)

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Retro-reflective hummingbirds ( Aglaeactis )
Type : Red-breasted Andean Hummingbird
Scientific name
Aglaeactis castelnaudii
( Bourcier & Mulsant , 1848)

The red-breasted Andean hummingbird ( Aglaeactis castelnaudii ) or tufted hummingbird is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species is endemic to Peru . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The red-breasted Andean hummingbird reaches a body length of about 12 cm with a short beak 1.8 cm long. The top is dark black with a bronze tint and a magenta sheen on the rump and rear part of the back. The underside is matt earth brown with a blackish color in the upper area of ​​the throat and face as well as a black chest band. Sometimes the underside is completely black with a tuft of white feathers on the chest. The yellow-brown arm wings look like a wing patch, the wings are criss-crossed with yellow-brown lines. The yellow-brown tail has dark bronze-colored tips on the central control feathers . Juveniles do not have a glittering rump and are rather uniformly brown on the underside.

behavior

They often sit conspicuously on the dead upper branches and appear confident. In areas where they overlap with the rust-red Andean hummingbird ( Aglaeactis cupripennis ), on the other hand, they appear subservient and cowardly. In the presence of this they withdraw to the lower branches inside the bushes. They also fly relatively high in car chases. After landing, they hold their wings up for a while. They get their nectar from barberries , barnadesia , brachyothum , centropogon , mint , lupins and siphocampylus .

Vocalizations

Their sounds sound like pipipipi or in chases like zriitzriitzriit and occasionally very weak and thin ziiis .

distribution and habitat

Distribution area (green) of the red-breasted Andean hummingbird Aglaeactis castelnaudii

They prefer relatively open shrubbery, Polylepis and Escallonia trees, or clearings in semi-humid forests. They move at altitudes between 2500 and 4300 meters. So comes A. c. regalis in semi-humid areas of the Marañón in the Huánuco region to the south of Aconcocha, Millpo and Rumicruz in the adjacent Pasco region. The nominate form is common in Apurímac in the Nevado Ampay and in Cuzco in the Cordillera Vilcanota .

Subspecies

There are two known subspecies:

  • Aglaeactis castelnaudii regalis Zimmer, JT , 1951 - The subspecies occurs in the Andes of central Peru in Huánuco , Pasco and Junín .
  • Aglaeactis castelnaudii castelnaudii ( Bourcier & Mulsant , 1848) - The nominate form occurs in the southern Andes of Peru in Huancavelica , Ayacucho , Apurímac and Cusco .

Etymology and history of research

Jules Bourcier and Étienne Mulsant described the red-breasted Andean hummingbird under the name Trochilus Castelnaudii . They had the type specimen from the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and was allegedly collected by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de La Force in South America . It was not until 1848 that John Gould introduced the genus Aglaeactis u. a. for the rusty Andean hummingbird. The generic name is made up of the Greek words "aglaia αγλαια " for "shine, splendor, glory" and " aktis ακτις " for "sunbeam". The species name was given in honor of its discoverer. "Regalis" is Latin for "royal" and is derived from "rex, regis, regere" for "king, regent, rule".

literature

  • Jon Fjeldså , Niels Krabbe : Birds of the High Andes: A Manual to the Birds of the Temperate Zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America . Apollo Books, Stenstrup 1990, ISBN 87-88757-16-1 .
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Jules Bourcier, Étienne Mulsant: Description of the quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches . In: Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne . 1848, p. 269-275 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Todd Zimmer : Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 61, The genera Aglaeactis, Lafresnaya, Pterophanes, Boissonneaua, Heliangelus, Eriocnemis, Haplophaedia, Ocreatus, and Lesbia . In: American Museum novitates . No. 1540 , 1951, pp. 1-55 ( digitallibrary.amnh.org (PDF; 5.077 MB)).
  • John Gould: Drafts for a new arrangement of the Trochilidae . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . tape 16 , no. 180 , 1848, pp. 11-14 ( 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 ).

Web links

Commons : Red-breasted Andean Hummingbird ( Aglaeactis castelnaudii )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Jon Fjeldså u. a., p. 258.
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  3. John Todd Zimmer, p. 4.
  4. a b Jules Bourcier u. a., p. 270.
  5. John Gould, pp. 11f.
  6. James A. Jobling, p. 36
  7. Jules Bourcier et al. a., p. 271.
  8. James A. Jobling, p. 332.

Remarks

  1. In addition to the rusty Andean hummingbird ( Aglaeactis cupripennis ( Bourcier , 1843)) he also assigned the black-bellied Andean hummingbird ( Aglaeactis pamela ( d'Orbigny , 1838)).