Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Heliodoxa > Heliodoxa xanthogonysHeliodoxa xanthogonys (Velvet-browed Brilliant)The velvet-browed brilliant (Heliodoxa xanthogonys) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.The species is found in Venezuela, central regions, mostly east of the Orinoco River, and in the east with Guyana, and in the small border region of Brazil, intersecting with Guyana and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 10.474 EDGE Score: 2.44008 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 7 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 90 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
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Species |
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Climate |
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Pantepuis |
Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Centraal Suriname Nature Reserve (CSNR) |
Suriname |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Monumento Natural Cerro Urutaní |
Venezuela |
A2 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Guaiquinima |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Guanay |
Venezuela |
A2 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Parú |
Venezuela |
A2 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Roraima |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Yavi |
Venezuela |
A1, A2 |
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Monumento Natural Tepui Yutajé |
Venezuela |
A2 |
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Parque Nacional Canaima |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Duida-Marahuaca |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Jaua-Sarisariñama |
Venezuela |
A2 |
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Parque Nacional Parima-Tapirapecó |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Serranía La Neblina |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Reserva Forestal Sipapo |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tepuis do Amazonas |
Brazil |
A2, A3 |
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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 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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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