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Campylopterus ensipennis (White-tailed Sabrewing)

Synonyms: Trochilus ensipennis

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-tailed sabrewing (Campylopterus ensipennis) is a large hummingbird that breeds in northeastern Venezuela and Tobago. It was thought to have become extinct in Tobago after hurricane Flora in 1963, but the population has now largely recovered. This species is now featured on Tobago’s environmental posters under the nickname “Campy”.
View Wikipedia Record: Campylopterus ensipennis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.83284
EDGE Score: 2.45665
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  90 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  60 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cordillera La Costa montane forests Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Trinidad and Tobago moist forests Trinidad and Tobago Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
El Guácharo National Park II 154935 Venezuela  
Macizo Montañoso del Turimiquire Protective Zone 1334369 Venezuela  
Península de Paria National Park II 92665 Sucre, Venezuela    

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Main Ridge, Tobago Trinidad and Tobago A1, A2, A3  
Parque Nacional El Guácharo Venezuela A1, A2, A3, A4ii
Parque Nacional Península de Paria Venezuela A1, A2, A3  
Zona Protectora Macizo Montañoso del Turimiquire Venezuela A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Renealmia alpinia (jenjibre-de-jardin)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Brown, J. H. and Bowers, M. A. 1985. Community organization in hummingbirds: relationships between morphology and ecology Auk 102: 251–269.
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 4del 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
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