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Doricha eliza (Mexican Sheartail)

Synonyms: Trochilus eliza
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mexican sheartail (Doricha eliza) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It is endemic to Mexico.
View Wikipedia Record: Doricha eliza

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.13961
EDGE Score: 2.11375
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.5 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests
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
Fledging [4]  23 days
Incubation [4]  15 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Veracruz dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Yum Balam Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Convention 380671 Quintana Roo, Mexico      
Humedal de Importancia Especialmente para la Conservación de Aves Acuáticas Reserve Ría Lagartos Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) 149123 Yucatán, Mexico    
Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve VI 149920 Mexico    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

Prey / Diet

Agave angustifolia (Caribbean Agave)[1]
Cordia sebestena (Geranium Tree)[1]
Dicliptera sexangularis (sixangle foldwing)[1]
Ernodea littoralis (coughbush)[1]
Malvaviscus arboreus (wax mallow)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amazilia rutila (Cinnamon Hummingbird)4
Amazilia yucatanensis (Buff-bellied Hummingbird)1
Aulacorhynchus prasinus (Emerald Toucanet)1
Mionectes oleagineus (Ochre-bellied Flycatcher)1
Semnornis frantzii (Prong-billed Barbet)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 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
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