Steel green amazilie

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Steel green amazilie
Steel green amazilie

Steel green amazilie

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Amazilia hummingbirds ( Amazilia )
Type : Steel green amazilie
Scientific name
Amazilia saucerottei
( Delattre & Bourcier , 1846)

The steely-vented hummingbird ( Amazilia saucerottei ) or sometimes Stahlamazilie is a species of bird in the family of hummingbirds (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that covers about 250,000 square kilometers in the South American countries Colombia , Ecuador and Venezuela as well as the Central American countries Costa Rica and Nicaragua . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The steel green Amazilie reaches a body length of about 8.9 centimeters. The straight beak becomes about 18 millimeters long. The lower jaw is pale pink with somber spots. The male is shimmering green on the top, while the underside is glistening green. The upper part of the fanned tail is covered in bronze brown, the lower part is steel blue to black and becomes whitish at the end. The female is very similar, but differs by a gray to brownish tail end.

Habitat

The hummingbird is mainly found in dry bushes. He likes to move around forest edges and cultivated land as well as gardens. It can be found at heights of up to 2000 meters near the Pacific mountainside.

behavior

The bird feeds primarily on flower nectar from low bushes and scrub. He's also remarkably combative. It fixes its goblet-shaped nest in the branches. Depending on the region, it breeds z. B. in Santa Maria (Colombia) from July to October and in the central and western Andes from January to September.

Subspecies

Distribution area of ​​the steel green amazilie

So far four subspecies are known.

  • Amazilia saucerottei braccata ( Heine , 1863)
  • Amazilia saucerottei hoffmanni ( Cabanis & Heine , 1860)
  • Amazilia saucerottei saucerottei ( Delattre & Bourcier , 1846)
  • Amazilia saucerottei warscewiczi ( Cabanis & Heine , 1860). The North American Classification Committee proposes the collection for the independent nature due to genetic studies.

The subspecies Amazilia saucerottei australis ( Meyer de Schauensee , 1951) is usually considered a synonym for the nominate form .

The subspecies hoffmanni lives in western Nicaragua as well as in western and central Costa Rica. The subspecies warscewiczi occurs in northern Colombia and the extreme northwest of Venezuela. In the west of Venezuela is the ssp. home to braccata . There you can find them in the Andes near Mérida and Trujillo . In the northwest, northern central and western Colombia, one can find the ssp. watch saucerottei .

Etymology and history of research

Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier described the steel green Amazilie under the name Trochilus Saucerrottei . This name was given in honor of Antoine Constant Saucerotte (1805-1884), a doctor and hobby ornithologist from Lunéville . However, the spelling mistake in the original description (double r) must be corrected in accordance with Article 32.1.5 of the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature . The type specimen came from Cali in the then viceroyalty of New Granada , an area in which Delattre had collected during one of his trips. Later the species was assigned to the genus Amazilia . This word was inspired by the fictional character Amazili, an Inca heroine who appears in Les Incas, Ou La Destruction De L'Empire Du Pérou by Jean-François Marmontel . The subspecies »warscewiczi« and »hoffmanni« were named after their discoverers: Josef von Warscewicz (1812–1866) was a Polish botanist and horticultural director at the Botanical Garden in Krakow , Karl Hoffmann a German naturalist who worked for the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin sent new bellows from Costa Rica. The name "braccata" is derived from the Latin word "braccae" for "pants".

literature

  • Steven L. Hilty , William L. Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, 1986, page 274, ISBN 978-0-691-08372-8 .
  • Steven L. Hilty, Birds of Venezuela , Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-691-09250-8
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • Adolphe Delattre, Jules Bourcier: Description de quinze espèce nouvelle de Trochilidèe, faisant partie de collections rapportées par M. Ad. De Lattre dont le précédentes excursions ont déjà enrichi plusieurs branches de L'histoire naturelle, et provenant de L'intérieur de Pérou, de républiques de l'Équateur, de la Nouvelle-Grenade et de l'Isthme de Panama . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 6 , 1846, pp. 305-312 ( online [accessed February 10, 2014]).
  • Ferdinand Heine junior: Trochilidica . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 11 , issue (3) 63, 1863, pp. 173-217 ( online [accessed February 10, 2014]).
  • Jean Louis Cabanis , Ferdinand Heine junior: Museum Heineanum Directory of the ornithological collection of Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine on Gut St. Burchard in front of Halberstatdt. With critical comments and a description of the new species, systematically edited by Dr. Jean Cabanis, first custodian of the Royal Zoological Collection in Berlin and Ferdinand Heine, student philosopher volume 3 . R. Frantz, Halberstadt 1860 ( online [accessed February 10, 2014]).
  • Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee: Colombian Zoological Survey. Part VIII. - On birds from Nariño, Colombia, with the description of four new subspecies . In: Notulae Naturae . No. 232 , 1951, pp. 1-6 ( online [accessed February 10, 2014]).

Web links

Commons : Steel Green Amazilie  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Heine junior, p. 193
  3. ↑ a b c Jean Louis Cabanis u. a., p. 38
  4. ↑ a b c Adolphe Delattre u. a., p. 311
  5. ↑ 2019-A-4: Elevate Amazilia saucerottei hoffmanni to species rank
  6. ↑ Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, p. 2
  7. ↑ James A. Jobling p. 43
  8. ↑ Jean Louis Cabanis et al. a., p. 39
  9. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 76