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Diglossa caerulescens (Bluish Flowerpiercer)

Synonyms: Diglossopis caerulescens; Diglossopis caerulescens caerulescens

Wikipedia Abstract

The bluish flowerpiercer (Diglossa caerulescens) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in humid montane forest in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
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Infraspecies

Diglossa caerulescens caerulescens
Diglossa caerulescens ginesi
Diglossa caerulescens media
Diglossa caerulescens mentalis
Diglossa caerulescens pallida
Diglossa caerulescens saturata

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  60 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Cavendishia bracteata[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Coeligena helianthea (Blue-throated Starfrontlet)1
Eriocnemis mirabilis (Colorful Puffleg)1
Oxypogon guerinii (Bearded Helmetcrest)1

External References

Citations

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
♦ 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.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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