Calothorax lucifer (Lucifer Hummingbird)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Lucifer Hummingbird, Lucifer Sheartail

Common Names in French:

Colibri Lucifer

Common Names in German:

Luziferkolibri

Common Names in Japanese:

アカヒゲハチドリ

Common Names in Spanish:

Colibr� Lucifer

Description

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Physical Description

Adult Female: Head : Crown: greenish Face : Chin: white Bill: black Curvature: decurved Neck: Throat : white Body: Flanks: buff and white Sides: buff and white Underparts: white Upperparts: greenish Tail: greenish with white tip , rufous base Shape : rounded.Adult Male: Head: Crown: shiny green Face: Postocular Stripe : white Bill: black Curvature: decurved Neck: Throat: violet-purple Body: Underparts: white Upperparts: shiny green Tail: greenish Shape: deeply forked.

Size/Age/Growth

About 3 to 4 inches long, with a wingspan of 4 inches. Adults weigh about 0.1 ounces .

Habitat

Vegetation: arid montane scrubs, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane 3.7Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude

Biology

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Diet

Exclusively: Nectar Insects

Reproduction

Clutch Size: 2
Length of Incubation : 15-16? days
Days to Fledge : 21-24(?)
Number of Broods: ?

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom: Animalia () - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - Auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Tetrapoda () - Goodrich, 1930
        Class: Aves () - Linnaeus, 1758 - Birds
        Subclass: Neornithes () - Gadow, 1893
        Infraclass: Neoaves ()
        Superorder: Apodimorphae ()
        Order: Trochiliformes () - Hummingbirds
        Family: Trochilidae ()
        Subfamily: Trochilinae ()
        Genus: Calothorax () - (Swainson, 1827)
        Specific name: lucifer - (Swainson, 1827)
        Scientific name: - Calothorax lucifer (Swainson, 1827)

Unambiguous Synonyms

Calothorax lucifer (Swainson) 1827

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 12-Jun-2005

Similar Species

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Black-Chinned Hummingbird, Costa's Hummingbird

Members of the genus Calothorax

There are approximately 6 species in this genus:

C. decoratus · C. enicura · C. lucifer (Lucifer Hummingbird) · C. micrurus · C. pulcher (Beautiful Hummingbird) · C. pulchra

Bibliography

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Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.
BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)

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Notes

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Contributors

BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 09, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 09, 2007:

Avian Knowledge Network, Great Backyard Bird Count
Avian Knowledge Network, Project FeederWatch
Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
, Bird specimens

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3853072
Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178030
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851975
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178030
IUCN ID: 48448
Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNUC44010
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12409