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Amazilia cyanocephala (Azure-crowned Hummingbird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The azure-crowned hummingbird (Amazilia cyanocephala) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Amazilia cyanocephala

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.28191
EDGE Score: 1.4544
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6 grams
Birth Weight [3]  0.7 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [4]  90 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [6]  2
Incubation [5]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Hamelia patens (scarletbush)[5]
Palicourea padifolia[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chiroxiphia linearis (Long-tailed Manakin)1
Eupherusa cyanophrys (Oaxaca Hummingbird)1
Eupherusa poliocerca (White-tailed Hummingbird)1
Melanoptila glabrirostris (Black Catbird)1
Turdus grayi (Clay-colored 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.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 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.
♦ 6Jetz 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
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