White-tipped glossy tail

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White-tipped glossy tail
White-tipped glossy tail (Chalcostigma herrani) ♂

White-tipped glossy tail ( Chalcostigma herrani ) ♂

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Genre : Thorn-billed hummingbirds ( Chalcostigma )
Type : White-tipped glossy tail
Scientific name
Chalcostigma herrani
( Delattre & Bourcier , 1846)

The white-tipped glossy tail ( Chalcostigma herrani ) or sometimes the red breasted glossy tail is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae). The species has a large range that covers about 76,000 square kilometers in the South American countries of Colombia , Ecuador, and Peru . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The white-tipped glossy tail reaches a body length of about 10.5 to 11 centimeters. The fine short beak becomes about 13 millimeters long. Its weight varies between 5.5 and 6.5 grams. Its plumage is predominantly dark green. The forehead and rump glow copper-red. The Kehllatz is emerald green and streaked with reddish pointy spots. Its long tail feathers with white tips are midnight blue. The female looks very similar, but it is less noticeable.

White-tipped glossy tail ( Chalcostigma herrani ) ♀

Habitat

The bird is rarely found in open forests. It prefers to live in dense undergrowth or in the Andean páramo near the tree line . The white-tipped glossy tail lives as a resident bird on rocky mountain slopes at altitudes between 2700 and 3600 meters.

behavior

Usually you can see the hummingbird alone on flowers sucking up nectar. He usually holds on to this. It also feeds on small insects. The behavior of the bird can be described as territorial and aggressive. The males behave polygamously. Depending on the area, there are different breeding seasons (either September or mid-July). The females hatch their eggs without the assistance of the males. The female also takes care of the nestlings.

Subspecies

Distribution area of ​​the black panties

So far, two subspecies are known.

  • Chalcostigma herrani herrani ( Delattre & Bourcier , 1846)
  • Chalcostigma herrani tolimae Kleinschmidt , 1927

The subspecies tolimae is found in the central Andes of Colombia on the Nevado del Tolima . The subspecies herrani occurs in the western Andes of Colombia from the Munchique National Park to Nariño . You can also find the ssp. on both sides of the mountain slopes from Ecuador to Piura in northern Peru.

Etymology and history of research

The white-tipped glossy tail was first discovered near Pasto in what was then the viceroyalty of New Granada . Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier described the species under the name Trochilus Herrani . It was later assigned to the genus Chalcostigma . This name is derived from the Greek words "chalkos χαλκός " for "bronze, bronze-colored" and "stigma στίγμα " for "feature, marking". The name »herrani« is dedicated to the general and former President of the Viceroyalty of New Granada, Pedro Alcántara Herrán Martínez de Zaldúa (1800–1872). The type specimen of the subspecies C. h. tolimae came from the estate of entomologist Anton Heinrich Hermann Fassl (1876–1922) and was collected at an altitude of 4000 meters on the Nevado del Tolima . The name »tolimae« is derived from this mountain.

literature

  • Steven Leon Hilty , William Leroy Brown : A guide to the birds of Colombia . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986, ISBN 978-0-691-08372-8 ( online [accessed May 8, 2013]).
  • Thomas Scott Schulenberg , Douglas Forrester Stotz , Daniel Franklin Lane, John Patton O'Neill , Theodore Albert Parker III : Birds of Peru . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-8673-9 .
  • 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 del'isthme de Panama . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 9 , 1846, pp. 305-312 ( online [accessed May 8, 2014]).
  • Otto Kleinschmidt: Chalcostigma herrani tolimae. prog. nov. In: Falco: magazine that appears at irregular intervals following the work "Berajah, Zoographia infinita" . tape 23 , no. 1 , 1927, pp. 5 .

Web links

Commons : Whitetip Shiny Tail ( Chalcostigma herrani )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Übersee-Museum Bremen Chalcostigma herrani  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.uebersee-museum.de  
  2. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  3. ↑ a b c Adolphe Delattre u. a., p. 309
  4. ↑ a b Otto Kleinschmidt, p. 5
  5. ↑ James A. Jobling p. 98