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Chionomesa fimbriata (Glittering-throated Emerald)

Synonyms: Amazilia fimbriata; Polyerata fimbriata; Trochilus fimbriatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The glittering-throated emerald (Amazilia fimbriata), sometimes placed in the genus Polyerata, is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in 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 dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Chionomesa fimbriata apicalis (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata elegantissima (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata fimbriata (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata fluviatilis (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata laeta (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata nigricauda (Glittering-throated emerald)
Chionomesa fimbriata tephrocephala (Glittering-throated emerald)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
8
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.65089
EDGE Score: 1.29497
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  0.5 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  90 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  80 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  3
Fledging [1]  21 days
Incubation [4]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Aechmea pectinata[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ramphodon naevius (Saw-billed Hermit)1
Thalurania glaucopis (Violet-capped Woodnymph)1

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Heliconia psittacorum (parakeetflower)[7]

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
♦ 4REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF THE VIOLET-CHESTED HUMMINGBIRD IN VENEZUELA AND COMPARISONS WITH OTHER TROPICAL AND TEMPERATE HUMMINGBIRDS, KAROLINA FIERRO-CALDERÓN AND THOMAS E. MARTIN, The Condor 109:680–685 (2007)
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Aechmea pectinata: a Hummingbird‐dependent Bromeliad with Inconspicuous Flowers from the Rainforest in South‐eastern Brazil (2003) MARIA BERNADETE FERREIRA CANELA and MARLIES SAZIMA. Annals of Botany Volume 92 Issue 5: 731-737.
♦ 7Ramirez, N., and Y. Brito. 1992. Pollination Biology in a Palm Swamp Community in the Venezuelan Central Plains. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 110:277-302.
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