World Species : Heliomaster furcifer (Blue-tufted Starthroat)

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Heliomaster furcifer (Blue-tufted Starthroat)

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Synonyms: Trochilus furcifer

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-tufted starthroat (Heliomaster furcifer) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and possibly Ecuador.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and dry savanna.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 9.23729

EDGE Score: 2.32604

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	5.4 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Nectar ^[2]	90 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	80 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	20 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	2
Incubation ^[3]	15 days
Migration ^[5]	Intracontinental

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Central Andean dry puna	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Central Andean puna	Argentina, Bolivia, Peru	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Espinal	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
High Monte	Argentina	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Humid Pampas	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uruguayan savanna	Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Ceiba pubiflora	^[3]
Ceiba speciosa (silk floss tree)	^[3]
Dolichandra cynanchoides	^[3]
Pyrostegia venusta (flamevine)	^[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Pionus maximiliani (Scaly-headed Parrot)	1
Polytmus guainumbi (White-tailed Goldenthroat)	1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Belton, W. 1984. Birds of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Part 1. Rheidae through Furnariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178: 369– 636.
♦ 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
♦ ³del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁴Jetz 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
♦ ⁵Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org

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