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Chlorestes cyanus (White-chinned Sapphire)

Synonyms: Amazilia cyanus; Hylocharis cyanus; Hylocharis pyropygia; Trochilus cyanus

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-chinned sapphire (Hylocharis cyanus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Chlorestes cyanus

Infraspecies

Chlorestes cyanus conversa
Chlorestes cyanus cyanus (White-eared hummingbird)
Chlorestes cyanus griseiventris
Chlorestes cyanus rostrata (White-eared hummingbird)
Chlorestes cyanus viridiventris (White-chinned sapphire)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.99524
EDGE Score: 1.60848
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  0.6 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 [4]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Aechmea nudicaulis (nakedstem livingvase)[5]
Quesnelia marmorata[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Euphonia violacea (Violaceous Euphonia)1
Ramphodon naevius (Saw-billed Hermit)2
Tachyphonus coronatus (Ruby-crowned Tanager)1
Tachyphonus rufus (White-lined Tanager)1
Thalurania glaucopis (Violet-capped Woodnymph)2

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
♦ 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
♦ 5The Saw-billed Hermit Ramphodon naevius and its Flowers in Southeastern Brazil, Ivan Sazima, Silvana Buzato and Marlies Sazima, Brazil. J. Orn. 136: 195-206
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