World Species : Chlorestes candida (White-bellied Emerald)

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Chlorestes candida (White-bellied Emerald)

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Synonyms: Agyrtria candida; Amazilia candida; Trochilus candidus

Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-bellied emerald (Amazilia candida) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Infraspecies

Chlorestes candida candida
Chlorestes candida genini
Chlorestes candida pacifica

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.48003

EDGE Score: 1.49963

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	4 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	10 %
Diet - Nectar ^[3]	90 %
Forages - Canopy ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	40 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	30 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Belizean pine forests	Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chiapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chimalapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests	Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Miskito pine forests	Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Oaxacan montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanos de Centla	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Pacific dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz moist forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	Yes

Prey / Diet

Inga flexuosa	^[5]
Miconia trinervia	^[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Catharus aurantiirostris (Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush)	1

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
♦ ²Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 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
♦ 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.

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