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Archilochus colubris (Ruby-throated Hummingbird)

Synonyms: Trochilus colubris
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) is a species of hummingbird that generally spends the Winter in Central America and migrates to Eastern North America for the Summer to breed. It is by far the most common hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi River in North America.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.82856
EDGE Score: 1.57455
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Lowlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [4]  60 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  40 %
Forages - Understory [4]  40 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [3]  2
Fledging [1]  21 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  34,000,000
Incubation [3]  13 days
Mating Display [6]  Acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [6]  Polygyny
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Migration [7]  Intracontinental
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Providers

Shelter 
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)[8]
Flavoparmelia caperata (flavoparmelia lichen)[8]
Pinus strobus (Eastern white pine)[8]
Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine)[8]
Robinia pseudoacacia (Post locust)[8]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 9Hummingbirds and the plants they visit in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico, Raúl Ortiz-Pulido, S. Anaid Díaz, Oscar I. Valle-Díaz and Ana D. Fisher, Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 83: 152-163, 2012
♦ 10Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0