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Thalurania furcata (Fork-tailed Woodnymph)

Synonyms: Trochilus furcatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The fork-tailed woodnymph (Thalurania furcata) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Thalurania furcata baeri (Fork-tailed woodnymph) (Attributes)
Thalurania furcata balzani (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata boliviana (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata eriphile (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata fissilis (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata furcata (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata furcatoides (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata jelskii (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata nigrofasciata (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata orenocensis (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata refulgens (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata simoni (Fork-tailed woodnymph)
Thalurania furcata viridipectus (Fork-tailed woodnymph)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.58961
EDGE Score: 1.5238
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  0.5 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  90 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  30 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Incubation [4]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
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. No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Pitcairnia geyskesii[6]
Stetsonia coryne[5]

Range Map

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 4MAJOR, P. (2010). Foraging ecology of the great grebe podicephorus major in Mar Chiquita lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Ardeola, 57(1), 133-141.
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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