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Leucolia violiceps (Violet-crowned Hummingbird)

Synonyms: Amazilia violiceps; Cyanomyia violiceps; Ramosomyia violiceps; Ramosomyia violiceps violiceps
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The violet-crowned hummingbird (Amazilia violiceps) is a medium-sized hummingbird. It is 10 cm long and weighs approximately 5 g. The bird is best distinguished by its violet-colored cap, from where it gets its name. Adults are colored predominantly a dark olive green for their upperparts and tail. The underparts are predominantly white. The bill of the male is straight and very slender. It is red in coloration, and shows a black tip. The female is less colorful than the male.
View Wikipedia Record: Leucolia violiceps

Infraspecies

Leucolia violiceps ellioti
Leucolia violiceps violiceps (Hummingbird)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.61461
EDGE Score: 1.52923
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Desert scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Desert scrub
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  90 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  80 %
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,000,000
Mating Display [1]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [5]  6 years 1 month

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  
Sevilleta LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research IV 228335 New Mexico, United States

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
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

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5de 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
♦ 6Hummingbirds 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
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
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