Stripe-tailed hummingbird

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Stripe-tailed hummingbird
Stripe-tailed hummingbird

Stripe-tailed hummingbird

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Tribe : Emeralds (Trochilini)
Genre : Eupherusa
Type : Stripe-tailed hummingbird
Scientific name
Eupherusa eximia
( Delattre , 1843)
Eupherusa eximia distribution area
Eupherusa eximia

The striped- tailed hummingbird or striped- tailed upherusa ( Eupherusa eximia ) is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a range of around 180,000 square kilometers in Mexico , Belize , Guatemala , Honduras , Costa Rica , Panama and Nicaragua . According to the IUCN, the population is not endangered ( least concern ).

features

The striped-tailed hummingbird reaches a body length of 10 to 11.5 centimeters and is one of the medium-sized hummingbirds. The black, straight beak is 18 to 19 millimeters long. The male is predominantly emerald green. In the lower part of the abdomen, the color turns yellow-brown. The lower part of the tail is colored white. The reddish pattern of the arm wings stands out conspicuously. The inner control springs are green and have a white stripe through them, while they turn black on the outside. In the female, the neck and lower part are ash gray. The female's head is dark around the ears and a white ring adorns the eyes. The white part of the tail is more pronounced than that of the male. The black outer feathers are missing. The upper side is emerald green like the male.

Habitat

The bird prefers to move in moist evergreen forest, as well as in cloud forests. You can see him regularly in the forest for foraging. Otherwise he prefers lower-growing plants, shrubs and smaller trees on the edge of the forest. In Chiriquí and Veraguas it is mostly active above 1500 meters, but mostly at heights between 600 and 1800 meters.

behavior

He collects his food in all vegetation heights. When eating, the tail is spread apart. The breeding season is from April to August.

Subspecies

So far, three subspecies are known.

  • Eupherusa eximia egregia P. L. Sclater & Salvin , 1868
  • Eupherusa eximia eximia ( Delattre , 1843)
  • Eupherusa eximia nelsoni Ridgway , 1910

The subspecies nelsoni is found in the east and southeast of Mexico. The subspecies eximia is native to the extreme east of Mexico up to the plateaus of central Nicaragua. In the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama one encounters the ssp. egregia .

Etymology and history of research

Adolphe Delattre described the striped- tailed hummingbird under the name Ornismya eximia . In 1857 the species was assigned to the genus Eupherusa by John Gould . The “Eupherusa” is derived from the Greek words “eu εὖ ” for “good” and “pherō φέρω ” for “to wear”. The term "eximia" is derived from the Latin word "eximius" for "exceptional, extraordinary". The word "egregia" comes from the Latin word "egregius" for "excellent, outstanding". The »nelsoni« is dedicated to Edward William Nelson (1855–1934). Nelson had participated with Edward Alphonso Goldman (1873-1946) in a biological study in Mexico, from which the type specimen came.

literature

  • Steve NG Howell, Sophie W. Webb: A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America . Oxford University Press, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-854012-4 .
  • Robert Sterling Ridgely, John A. Gwynne: A Guide to the Birds of Panama: With Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1989, ISBN 0-691-02512-6 ( books.google.de ).
  • Adolphe Delattre : Oiseaux-Mouches nouveaux au peu connus, découverts au Gualimala . In: L'Écho du monde savant et l'Hermès: journal analytique des nouvelles et des cours scientifiques. tape 7 , no. 45 , 1843, pp. 1068-1070 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Philip Lutley Sclater, Osbert Salvin: Description of Four New Species of Birds from Veragua . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1868 . 1868, p. 388-390 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Robert Ridgway: Diagnoses of new birds of Micropodidae and Trochilidae . In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington . tape 23 , 1910, pp. 53-56 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • John Gould: A monograph of the Trochilidæ, or family of humming-birds . tape 5 , delivery 14. Taylor and Francis, London 1857 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • 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 : Striped- tailed hummingbird ( Eupherusa eximia )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  2. ^ Philip Lutley Sclater et al. a., p. 389.
  3. ↑ a b Adolphe Delattre, p. 1069.
  4. ↑ a b Robert Ridgway, p. 54.
  5. ^ John Gould, plate 324 plus text.
  6. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 152.
  7. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 155.
  8. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 143.

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Frederick Herschel Waterhouse p. 49, plate 324 appeared as part of delivery 14 from 1857. Here Gould assigned the striped- tailed hummingbird ( Eupherusa eximia ( Delattre, 1843 )) to the genus.