Amazilia castaneiventris

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest • Minimum Elevation: 850 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,050 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Eastern Slope Andes • Foraging Strata: ? • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Unknown

Ecology: It inhabits dry valleys and some humid sites at 850-2,200 m , and possibly as low as 120 m in the Serranía de San Lucas (though the species has not been rediscovered at this site since its collection there, despite rapid assessment of the area in 1999-200115). Many records come from forest borders , bushy canyons and semi-arid areas vegetated with shrubs and low trees4; the species apparently shows a preference for rivers and streams , but is regularly recorded at roadside flowering trees11. The species is tolerant of habitat degradation, having been recorded in pastures, fruit crops , coffee plantations and xerophytic scrub , where it exploits a wide variety of floral resources , e.g. cactus, guamo (Inga spp), banana (Musa sp), coffee and yatago (Trychanthera gigantea) flowers12. It is also tolerant of human activities; fieldwork since 2004 has identified new sites, expanded the range and provided new information that emphasizes the species is adapted to heavily altered landscapes. For example, the Cerulean Warbler Bird Reserve in San Vicente de Chucuri, Santander, has both shade coffee and primary forest areas; three years of surveys by many groups and individuals across these habitats and area have only ever found castaneiventris in shade coffee, hedgerows and pasturelands (never in primary forest), while the species moves between available resources16. The breeding season is December-February12. The species benefits from bee-keeping which promotes the planting of melliferous vegetation used by hummingbirds8. Movements are not well understood; it is sedentary within parts of its range14, but in the driest areas it seems to undertake nomadic movements/short-distnace migration in response to dry condistions when key floral resources may be unavailable12.

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List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Amazilia castaneiventris (Gould, 1856) • Amazilia castaneiventris Gould, 1856

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Amazilia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 59 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. alticola (Loja Hummingbird) · A. amabilis (Blue-Chested Hummingbird) · A. amabilis amabilis (Blue-Chested Hummingbird) · A. amazilia (Amazilia Hummingbird) · A. beryllina (Berylline Hummingbird) · A. beryllina beryllina (Berylline Hummingbird) · A. boucardi (Mangrove Hummingbird) · A. brevirostris (White-Chested Emerald) · A. candida (White-Bellied Emerald) · A. candida candida (White-Bellied Emerald) · A. castaneiventris (Chestnut-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. chionogaster (White-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. chionogaster chionogaster (White-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. chionopectus (White-Chested Emerald) · A. cupreicauda (Tepui Hummingbird) · A. cyanifrons (Indigo-Capped Hummingbird) · A. cyanocephala (Azure-Crowned Hummingbird) · A. cyanocephala cyanocephala (Azure-Crowned Hummingbird) · A. cyanura (Blue-Tailed Hummingbird) · A. cyanura cyanura (Blue-Tailed Hummingbird) · A. decora (Charming Hummingbird) · A. distans (Tachira Emerald) · A. edward (Snowy-Breasted Hummingbird) · A. edward edward (Snowy-Breasted Hummingbird) · A. fimbriata (Glittering-Throated Emerald) · A. fimbriata fimbriata (Glittering-Throated Emerald) · A. franciae (Andean Emerald) · A. handleyi (Escudo Hummingbird) · A. lactea (Sapphire Spangled Emerald) · A. lactea lactea (Sapphire-Spangled Emerald) · A. leucogaster (Plain-Bellied Emerald) · A. leucogaster leucogaster (Plain-Bellied Emerald) · A. luciae (Honduras Emerald) · A. rondoniae (Rondonia Emerald) · A. rosenbergi (Purple-Chested Hummingbird) · A. rutila (Cinnamon Hummingbird) · A. rutila rutila (Cinnamon Hummingbird) · A. saucerottei (Steely-Vented Hummingbird) · A. saucerrottei (Steely-Vented Hummingbird) · A. saucerrottei saucerrottei (Steely-Vented Hummingbird) · A. tobaci (Copper-Rumped Hummingbird) · A. tobaci tobaci (Copper-Rumped Hummingbird) · (Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird) · A. tzacatl handleyi (Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird) · A. tzacatl tzacatl (Rufous-Tailed Hummingbird) · A. versicolor (Versicoloured Emerald) · A. versicolor versicolor (Versicoloured Emerald) · A. violiceps (Violet-Crowned Hummingbird) · A. violiceps ellioti (Violet-Crowned Hummingbird) · A. violiceps violiceps (Violet-Crowned Hummingbird) · A. viridicauda (Green-And-White Hummingbird) · A. viridifrons (Green-Fronted Hummingbird) · A. viridifrons viridifrons (Green-Fronted Hummingbird) · A. viridigaster (Green-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. viridigaster viridigaster (Green-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. yucatanensis (Fawn-Breasted Hummingbird) · A. yucatanensis chalconota (Buff-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. yucatanensis yucatanensis (Buff-Bellied Hummingbird) · A. yucatensis (Buff-Bellied Hummingbird)

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Further Reading

• An introduction to the Trochilidae: or family of humming-birds / London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, 1861. url p. 157.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other is by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1918 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1918. url p. 190.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 212.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 74.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 103, p. 97.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 59, p. 67, p. 97.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices JNCC url p. 125.
• Genera of humming birds: being also a complete monograph of these birds / by Adolphe Boucard. London: [A. Boucard?], 1893-1895 [i.e. 1895] url p. 198.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 190.
• Trochilidae, bearbeitet von Ernst Hartert. Mit 34 abbildungen im texte. Berlin, R. Friedländer und sohn, 1900. url p. 57, p. 59.
• Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History) / by R.L.M. Warren & C.J.O. Harrison. London: BM(NH), 1966-1973. url p. 22.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 146, p. 145.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Amazilia castaneiventris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 06, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, &quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds,&quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 06, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10132
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-555174
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740620
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555174
• IUCN ID: 190288
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 727

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2009. Amazilia castaneiventris. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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