Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Amazilia > Amazilia yucatanensisAmazilia yucatanensis (Buff-bellied Hummingbird)Synonyms: Trochilus yucatanensis Language: Spanish The buff-bellied hummingbird (Amazilia yucatanensis) is a medium-sized hummingbird. It is 10–11 cm (3.9–4.3 in) long and has a mass of 4–5 g (0.14–0.18 oz). Adults are a metallic olive green above and buffy in the lower breast. The tail and primary wings are rufous in colour and slightly forked. The underwing is white. The bill of the male is straight and very slender. It is red in colouration with a darker tip. The throat is a metallic golden green. The female has a dark upper bill, and is less colourful than the male. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.46192 EDGE Score: 1.6978 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 4 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 0.6 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests | | Wintering Geography [2] | Gulf-Caribbean Lowlands | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 10 % | | Diet - Nectar [4] | 90 % | | Forages - Mid-High [4] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [4] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 2,000,000 | | Maximum Longevity [6] | 11 years 2 months |
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Belize Coastal and near shore islands |
Belize |
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Crooked Tree and associated wetlands |
Belize |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Maya-Lacandon |
Guatemala |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Northeastern Belize |
Belize |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
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 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. ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 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 ♦ 6de 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 ♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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