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Chaetocercus astreans (Santa Marta Woodstar)

Synonyms: Acestrura astreans

Wikipedia Abstract

The Santa Marta woodstar (Chaetocercus astreans) is a species of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family.It is found only in Colombia.
View Wikipedia Record: Chaetocercus astreans

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
2
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.49146
EDGE Score: 0.912869
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [1]  90 %
Forages - Canopy [1]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [1]  50 %
Forages - Understory [1]  30 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Santa Marta montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Cuchilla de San Lorenzo Colombia A1, A2, A3  
Pueblo Bello Colombia A1, A2
Valle de San Salvador Colombia A1, A2, A3  
Valle del Río Frío Colombia A1, A2, A3

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
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