Amazilia boucardi

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests • Zoogeographic Region: Humid Pacific Coast • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,479 meters (0 to 14,695 feet).[1]

Ecology: It feeds principally on the flowers of P. rhizophorae, but is occasionally observed in adjacent , non-mangrove habitats . Nesting has been recorded in October-February.

[2].

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Amazilia boucardi (Mulsant, 1877)

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

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 52.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 342.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 103, p. 179, 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.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 169.
• 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 2008. Amazilia boucardi. 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 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• 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 09, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10121
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-555163
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740620
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555163
• IUCN ID: 190285
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 726

Footnotes

1. Mean = 21.800 meters (71.522 feet), Standard Deviation = 186.480 based on 201,417 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2008. Amazilia boucardi. 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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