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Chlorostilbon stenurus (Narrow-tailed Emerald)

Synonyms: Chlorostilbon stenura; Chlorostilbon stenura stenura; Panychlora stenura

Wikipedia Abstract

The narrow-tailed emerald (Chlorostilbon stenurus) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Chlorostilbon stenurus ignotus
Chlorostilbon stenurus stenurus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.19078
EDGE Score: 1.43289
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [1]  90 %
Forages - Mid-High [1]  20 %
Forages - Understory [1]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Incubation [2]  15 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cordillera La Costa montane forests Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera Oriental montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Venezuelan Andes montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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