Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Nesophlox > Nesophlox evelynaeNesophlox evelynae (Bahaman Woodstar; Bahama Woodstar)Synonyms: Calliphlox evelynae; Calliphlox evelynae evelynae; Calothorax evelynae; Philodice evelynae; Trochilus evelynae The Bahama woodstar (Calliphlox evelynae) is a species of hummingbird endemic of the Bahama Islands. It is named the "Hummer" by locals due to a distinct humming sound it makes while feeding. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.44608 EDGE Score: 1.23724 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 2.9 grams | | Female Weight [3] | 2 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 90 % | | Forages - Aerial [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | | Incubation [1] | 15 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Bahamian pine mosaic |
Bahamas |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Inagua National Park |
II |
183681 |
Bahamas |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Cat Island Wetlands |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, A4i, B4i |
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Driggs Hill to Mars Bay |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, A4i |
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East Caicos and adjacent areas |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, B4i |
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Fish Ponds and Crossing Place Trail, Middle Caicos |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2, B4i, B4ii |
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Harrold and Wilson Ponds National Park |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, A4i, B4i |
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Little Abaco |
Bahamas |
A1, A2 |
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Mangrove Cay |
Bahamas |
A1, A2 |
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Middle Caicos Forest |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2 |
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North, Middle and East Caicos Ramsar Site |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Owenstown |
Bahamas |
A2 |
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Red Bays |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, B4i |
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Salt Cay Creek and Salinas |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A2, A4i, B4i |
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San Andros Pond |
Bahamas |
A1, A2 |
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Sandy Point |
Bahamas |
A2, B4i, B4ii |
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South Tarpum Bay |
Bahamas |
A1, A2 |
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Southern Abaco |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, B4ii |
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Southern Great Lake |
Bahamas |
A2, A4i, B4i |
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Stafford Creek to Andros Town |
Bahamas |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Wades Green and Teren Hill |
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK) |
A2 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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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. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 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 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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