Red-winged brilliant hummingbird

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Red-winged brilliant hummingbird
Red wing brilliant hummingbird illustrated by Joseph Smit

Red wing brilliant hummingbird illustrated by Joseph Smit

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Tribe : Brilliants (Coeligini)
Genre : Heliodoxa
Type : Red-winged brilliant hummingbird
Scientific name
Heliodoxa branickii
( Taczanowski , 1874)

The red-winged brilliant hummingbird ( Heliodoxa branickii ) or red -winged brilliant is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The distribution area of ​​this species includes parts of Peru and Bolivia . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The red-winged brilliant hummingbird reaches a body length of about 11 to 12 cm and a weight of about 5.1 to 5.9 g. It has a straight black bill, with parts of the lower mandible being whitish in the male. The male has an iridescent upper head that is green near the beak and changes to bluish at the back of the head. The rest of the top is shimmering green. The central pair of control springs is green, the rest dark blue. The underside is green with a glittering pink spot in the center of the throat. The under tail-coverts are white. The outer flags of the outer and the base of the inner flight feathers are conspicuously cinnamon to reddish. The tail is slightly forked. The female looks similar to the male on the upper side, but has a small white line under the eye. The throat is green with a small white spot. The chest and belly are white to yellow-brown interspersed with a green tint. The sides and flanks shimmer green. The under tail-coverts are white, the tail color is similar to that of the male. The central control springs have white spots. The tail is also slightly forked.

Behavior and nutrition

The red-winged brilliant hummingbird feeds mainly on nectar . The proportion of insects in food has not yet been researched.

Vocalizations

His singing is probably a repeated, dragging, dry squeaky rattle. It also emits repeated tsiu tones at a frequency of one tone per second, as well as an irritated chatter, with a decreasing fluctuating rattle.

Reproduction

Breeding activities and nest building have not yet been researched.

distribution and habitat

Distribution area of ​​the red wing brilliant hummingbird

The red-winged brilliant hummingbird prefers forests, forest edges and woodland as well as plantations in the mountain foothills at altitudes between 750 and 1300 meters. In 2002 the red-winged brilliant hummingbird was first observed in the La Paz department .

Subspecies

The species is considered to be monotypical .

Etymology and history of research

Władysław Taczanowski described the red-winged brilliant hummingbird under the name Lampraster branickii . The type specimen came from Huanta and was collected by Konstanty Roman Jelski (1837-1896). In 1850 John Gould introduced the genus Heliodoxa u. a. for the violet-forehead brilliant hummingbird . This name is derived from the Greek words "hēlios, ἡλιος " for "sun" and "doxa, dekhomai δοξα, δεχομαι " for "splendor, glory, approve". The species name is dedicated to Count Konstanty Grzegorz Branicki (1824-1884).

literature

  • Iris Heynen, Peter Boesman in: Josep del Hoyo , Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal , David Andrew Christie , Eduardo de Juana: Rufous-webbed Brilliant (Heliodoxa branickii) in Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Władysław Taczanowski: Description of the oiseaux nouveaux de Pérou central . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1874 . 1874, p. 129-140 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Gould: Description of Two new Species with the characters of a new Genus of Trochilidae . In: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . tape 17 , no. 195 , 1849, pp. 95-96 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Swen Christoph Renner, Karl-Ludwig Schuchmann: Biogeography of cis-Andiner brilliant hummingbirds (Heliodoxa sp.) . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 142 , no. 2 , 2001, p. 211 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01651790 .
  • Jensen Reitz Montambault: Informes de las evaluaciones biológicas Pampas del Heath, Perú, Alto Madidi, Bolivia y Pando, Bolivia . CI CABS, Washington, DC 2002, ISBN 1-881173-45-3 .
  • Christopher L. Merkord, Todd Mark, Dora Susanibar, Andrew Johnson, Christopher C. Witt: Avifaunal survey of the Río Chipaota valley in the Cordillera Azul region, San Martín, Peru . In: Ornitologia Neotropical . tape 20 , no. 4 , 2009, p. 535–552 ( sora.unm.edu [PDF; 257 kB ]).

Web links

Commons : Red-winged Brilliant Hummingbird ( Heliodoxa branickii )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Iris Heynen u. a.
  2. ↑ Jensen Reitz Montambault, p. 37.
  3. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  4. ↑ a b Władysław Taczanowski, p. 140.
  5. ↑ John Gould, pp. 95 f.
  6. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 188.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In addition to the violet- forehead brilliant hummingbird, he also classified the green- browed brilliant hummingbird ( Heliodoxa jacula Gould , 1850), the brown-bellied brilliant hummingbird ( Heliodoxa rubinoides ( Bourcier & Mulsant , 1846)) and the ruby hummingbird ( Clytolaema rubricauda ) (Syn. 1783) ( Boddaert , 17 : Heliodoxa rubinia Gould , 1850) to the new genus. With the subspecies Heliodoxa leadbeateri otero , Gould did not seem entirely sure.