Yucatan sword wings

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Yucatan sword wings
Campylopterus pampa, Belize.jpg

Yucatan sword ( Campylopterus pampa )

Systematics
Order : Sailor birds (Apodiformes)
Family : Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)
Tribe : Trochilini
Genre : Epee wing ( Campylopterus )
Type : Yucatan sword wings
Scientific name
Campylopterus pampa
( Lesson RP , 1832)

The Yucatan sword wing ( Campylopterus pampa ) is a species of bird from the hummingbird family (Trochilidae) that is found on the Yucatán Peninsula , Guatemala , Belize and northeastern Honduras . The IUCN assesses the population as Least Concern .

features

The Yucatan sword wing has a light metallic violet to royal lilac top of the head. The rest of the top is metallic green to bronze green. The upper tail-coverts are rather bluish green. The tail is matt metallic blue-green, a color that fades into black to blackish purple at the end. This applies in particular to the innermost inner flags with the exception of the middle pairs. The outermost lateral control feathers are brownish gray in the middle, dark at the base. The flight feathers are dark purple in color. The underside including the cheek and reins areas are brownish gray or monotonous gray. In the ear area, the color is very similar, but looks a little darker. There is a pale white spot behind the eye. The upper beak is pale black, the lower beak brownish, slightly darker at the tip. The legs are brownish. The body length of about 11.5 to 13.1 cm, the wings 6.6 to 7.2 cm, the tail 4.8 to 5.9 cm and the beak 2.3 to 2.5 cm. The female is very similar to the male, but the two outer control feathers have broad brownish gray tips. The outermost ends show a little more brownish gray on the outer flags. The skull is purple and more dull than that of males. The body measurements are a bit smaller. The very similar Blaukron epee wing has a slightly longer beak and is lighter gray on the underside.

Vocalizations

The species repeats its vocal syllables three times in a row.

Brood

All that is known about the breeding biology of the Yucatan fish wing is that the male reproductive males use their song to attract females. In addition to the singing, he creates noises in the sightseeing flight which he accompanies with loud chirping sounds. The whirring noises are caused by the greatly broadened shafts of the hand wings. The male uses these flight noises specifically to lure the females. Males form a lek during courtship .

Habitat

Distribution of the Blaukron epee wing (right green area) and the Yucatan epee wing (left green area)

The bird lives in deciduous tropical forests, which are at lower altitudes than the Blaukron épée wing. Its habitat is drier than that of the Blaukron épée wing.

Subspecies

In the past, some authors counted Pampa curvipennis yucatanensis Simon , 1921, as another subspecies. Also Pampa lessoni Simon , 1887 is synonymous to nominate. Today the species is considered monotypical .

Etymology and history of research

The Yucatan sword was first described in 1832 by René Primevère Lesson under the scientific name Ornismya pampa . In 1827 William Swainson introduced the new genus Campylopterus . This word is derived from the Greek »kampylos καμπύλος « for »curved, curved« and »-pteros, pteron πτερο « for »-fluted, wing«. The species name »pampa« is the Quechua word for »level«, since Lesson erroneously assigned the type specimen to the interior of the Río de la Plata plain .

literature

  • Siegfried Becher: Coloring of the wings of the hummingbirds and sexual selection . In: Anatomical notebooks . tape 57 , no. 171/173 , 1919, pp. 447-482 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Nataly Cruz-Yepez, Clementina González, Juan Francisco Ornelas: Vocal recognition suggests premating isolation between lineages of a lekking hummingbird . In: Behavioral Ecology . May 23, 2020, doi : 10.1093 / beheco / araa050 .
  • Edward Clive Dickinson, Leslie K. Overstreet, Robert Jack Dowsett, Murray Duncan Bruce: Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology . Aves Press Limited, Northampton 2012, ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5 .
  • Clementina González, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Carla Gutiérrez-Rodríguez: Selection and geographic isolation influence hummingbird speciation: genetic, acoustic and morphological divergence in the wedge-tailed sabrewing (Campylopterus curvipennis) . In: BMC Evolutionary Biology . tape 11 , no. 38 , 2011, p. 1–19 , doi : 10.1186 / 1471-2148-11-38 ( researchgate.net [PDF]).
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
  • René Primevère Lesson : Histoire Naturelle des Colibris, suivie d'un supplement a l'histoire naturelles des Oiseaux-Mouches; Ouvrage orné de planches dessinées et gravées par les meilleurs artistes, et dédié à M. le Baron Cuvier . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1832 ( biodiversitylibrary.org - 1830-1832).
  • Robert Ridgway: The Birds of North and Middle America: A descriptive catalog of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds know to occur in North America, from the arctic lands to the isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other Islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago . In: Bulletin - United States National Museum. tape 50 , no. 5 , 1911, pp. 1-859 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Eugène Simon: Revision of the genres de la famille des Trochilidés . In: La feuille des jeunes naturalistes: revue mensuelle d'histoire naturelle (=  3 ). tape 27 , no. 318 , 1887, pp. 105-107 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Eugène Simon: Histoire naturelle des Trochilidae (Synopsis et catalog) . Encyclopédie Robert, L. Mulo, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris 1921 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • William Swainson: On several Groups and Forms in Ornithology, no hitherto defined . In: The Zoological journal . tape 3 , no. 11 , 1827, pp. 343-363 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Helmuth Otto Wagner: Attempt to analyze the hummingbird salt . In: Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie . tape 11 , no. 2 , 1954, p. 182–212 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1439-0310.1954.tb02045.x .
  • Thomas Züchner, Peter Boesman in: Josep del Hoyo , Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal , David Andrew Christie , Eduardo de Juana: Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (Campylopterus curvipennis) In: Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Web links

Commons : Yucatan sword ( Campylopterus pampa )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Ridgway p. 354
  2. ↑ Thomas Züchner u. a.
  3. ↑ a b Clementina González u. a., p. 2
  4. ↑ Helmuth Otto Wagner p. 183
  5. ↑ Helmuth Otto Wagner p. 190
  6. ↑ Helmuth Otto Wagner p. 201
  7. ↑ Helmuth Otto Wagner p. 208
  8. ↑ Clementina González et al. a., p. 10
  9. ↑ Eugène Simon (1921) pp. 28 & 264
  10. ↑ Eugène Simon (1887) p. 105
  11. ^ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
  12. ↑ a b René Primevère Lesson (1832), pp. 127–128, plate 15.
  13. ^ William Swainson (1827), p. 358
  14. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 87
  15. ↑ James A. Jobling p. 290

Remarks

  1. ↑ However, the IUCN still lists the hummingbird as a subspecies of the Blaukron rapier wing ( Campylopterus curvipennis pampa ).
  2. ↑ For the history of the publication see Edward Clive Dickinson u. a. Pp. 118-119.
  3. ↑ He assigned the gray-breasted rapier wing ( Campylopterus largipennis ( Boddaert , 1783)) and the red-tailed rapier wing ( Campylopterus falcatus ( Swainson , 1821)) to the new genus .