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Augastes lumachella (Hooded Visorbearer)

Synonyms: Augastes lumachellus; Augastes lumachellus lumachellus; Ornismya lumachella

Wikipedia Abstract

The hooded visorbearer, Colibri Lumachelle, or ColibrÍ Lumaquela (Augastes lumachella) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found only in Brazil.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Augastes lumachella

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.23945
EDGE Score: 2.80208
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.4 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  90 %
Forages - Understory [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Incubation [1]  15 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Atlantic dry forests Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Parque Estadual do Morro do Chapéu Brazil A1, A2
Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina Brazil A1, A2, A3
Sento Sé / Campo Formoso Brazil A1, A2

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil Yes

Prey / Diet

Stachytarpheta crassifolia[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Colibri serrirostris (White-vented Violetear)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.
♦ 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
♦ 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