Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Adelomyia > Adelomyia melanogenysAdelomyia melanogenys (Speckled Hummingbird)Synonyms: Trochilus melanogenys The speckled hummingbird (Adelomyia melanogenys), is a species of hummingbird. It inhabits Neotropical montane cloud forests at elevations of 1,000–2,500 meters and found in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 10.591 EDGE Score: 2.45023 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 3.5 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 0.4 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Nectar [3] | 90 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 70 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 | | Incubation [4] | 17 days |
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Bolivian Yungas |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cauca Valley montane forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Andean puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Cordillera La Costa montane forests |
Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cordillera Oriental montane forests |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Dry Chaco |
Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Cordillera real montane forests |
Ecuador, Colombia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ecuadorian dry forests |
Ecuador |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Magdalena Valley montane forests |
Colombia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northwestern Andean montane forests |
Colombia, Ecuador |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peruvian Yungas |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Andean Yungas |
Bolivia, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Venezuelan Andes montane forests |
Colombia, Venezuela |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 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 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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