Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Apodiformes > Trochilidae > Mellisuga > Mellisuga helenaeMellisuga helenae (Bee Hummingbird)Synonyms: Calypte helenae; Calypte helenae helenae; Orthorhynchus helenae The bee hummingbird, zunzuncito or Helena hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is a species of hummingbird. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.79368 EDGE Score: 2.02648 |
Clutch Size [5] | 2 | Clutches / Year [2] | 2 | Fledging [2] | 28 days | Incubation [4] | 21 days | Maximum Longevity [2] | 10 years | Water Biome [1] | Coastal | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Adult Weight [2] | 2.5 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 10 % | Diet - Nectar [3] | 90 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 30 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 70 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Female Maturity [2] | 1 year |
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IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Desembarco del Granma |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Guanahacabibes |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mil Cumbres |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pico Cristal |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Siboney: Juticí |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4iv |
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Sierra del Rosario |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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![](/img/rangekey.png) Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, 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♦ 2Nathan 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 ♦ 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 ♦ 6"FLORAL TRAITS OF PLANTS VISITED BY THE BEE HUMMINGBIRD (MELLISUGA HELENAE)", Bo Dalsgaard, Daniel W. Carstensen, Arturo Kirkconnell, Ana M. Martín González, Orestes Martínez García, Allan Timmermann, & William J. Sutherland, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 23: 143–149, 2012 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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