Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Leucippus > Leucippus fallaxLeucippus fallax (Buffy Hummingbird)Synonyms: Trochilus fallax The buffy hummingbird (Leucippus fallax) is a species of bird in the hummingbird family Trochilidae. This bird lives in dry forests and scrubland in northern South America where it feeds on insects and the nectar, flesh, and juice of cactus fruits. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.95996 EDGE Score: 1.94017 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 6 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 6 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 |
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Complejo de Humedales Costeros de la Guajira |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Humedal Chacopata |
Venezuela |
A4i |
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Humedales Boca de Hueque y Sauca |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Humedales Boca del Río Unare |
Venezuela |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Monumento Natural Laguna de las Marites |
Venezuela |
A4i |
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Parque Nacional El Ávila |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Henri Pittier |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Laguna de La Restinga |
Venezuela |
A1, A2 |
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Parque Nacional Médanos de Coro |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Mochima |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Morrocoy |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Macuira |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional San Esteban |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Refugio de Fauna Silvestre Cuare |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Refugio de Fauna Silvestre y Reserva de Pesca Ciénaga de Los Olivitos |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Refugio de Fauna Silvestre y Reserva de Pesca Laguna de Boca de Caño |
Venezuela |
A4i |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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 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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4COMPARATIVE POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF VENEZUELAN COLUMNAR CACTI AND THE ROLE OF NECTAR-FEEDING BATS IN THEIR SEXUAL REPRODUCTION, Jafet M. Nassar, Nelson Ramirez and Omar Linares, American Journal of Botany 84(8): 918927. 1997. 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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