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Doryfera ludovicae (Green-fronted Lancebill)

Synonyms: Doryfera ludoviciae; Doryfera ludoviciae ludoviciae; Trochilus ludoviciae

Wikipedia Abstract

The green-fronted lancebill (Doryfera ludovicae) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in subtropical and tropical moist montane forests in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. The green-fronted lancebill feeds on the nectar of epiphytes, including mistletoe.
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Infraspecies

Doryfera ludovicae ludovicae (Blue-fronted lancebill)
Doryfera ludovicae veraguensis (Green-fronted lancebill)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.1208
EDGE Score: 2.5742
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  0.9 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [4]  90 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  30 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Range Map

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External References

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.
♦ 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
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