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Chalybura buffonii (White-vented Plumeleteer)

Synonyms: Trochilus buffonii

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-vented plumeleteer (Chalybura buffonii) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Chalybura buffonii

Infraspecies

Chalybura buffonii aeneicauda
Chalybura buffonii buffonii
Chalybura buffonii caeruleogaster
Chalybura buffonii intermedia
Chalybura buffonii micans

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.00452
EDGE Score: 1.94656
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  90 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Pilosocereus moritzianus[4]
Stenocereus griseus[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coereba flaveola (Bananaquit)1
Glossophaga longirostris (Miller's long-tongued bat)2
Iguana iguana (Common Green Iguana)2
Leucippus fallax (Buffy Hummingbird)2
Tiaris bicolor (Black-faced Grassquit)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
♦ 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): 918–927. 1997.
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