Calypte anna

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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: gallery forests, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper subtropical: higher slopes, 500-1,600 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,147 meters (0 to 7,044 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats : 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Biology

Diet

Exclusively: Nectar Insects

Reproduction

• Clutch Size: 2
• Length of Incubation : 14-19 days
• Days to Fledge : 18-23
• Number of Broods: 2, possibly 3

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

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

Similar Species

Black-Chinned Hummingbird, Costa's Hummingbird

Members of the genus Calypte

There are approximately 3 species in this genus:

C. anna (Anna's Hummingbird) · C. costae (Costa's Hummingbird) · C. helenae (Bee Hummingbird)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A bibliography of birds: with special reference to anatomy, behavior, biochemistry --. by Reuben Myron Strong Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1946 UND url p. 213, p. 251, p. 32.
• A history of North American birds, by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 chromo-lithographic plates and 593 woodcuts. Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. ENG url p. 1, p. 1, p. 453, p. 454, p. 457.
• A systematic list of the birds of California / by Joseph Grinnell. Hollywood: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. ENG url p. 14.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• American birds, studied and photographed from life, by William Lovell Finley; illustrated from photographs by Herman T. Bohlman and the author. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1907. ENG url p. 11.
• Animal life in the Yosemite; an account of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians in a cross-section of the Sierra Nevada, by Joseph Grinnell and Tracy Irwin Storer Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1924. ENG url p. 18, p. 353, p. 743.
• Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory / Pomona College. Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- ENG url p. 190.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 49, p. 49.
• 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-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. ENG url p. 219.
• 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.
• Birds of America; editor-in-chief, T. Gilbert Pearson; consulting editor, John Burroughs; artists, R.I. Brasher, R. Bruce Horsfall [and] Henry Thurston. New York, The University Society, 1923. ENG url p. 184.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. ENG url p. 570.
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; wi New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. ENG url p. 188.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 1065, p. 1813, p. 371, p. 380, p. 383, p. 385, p. 477, p. 495, p. 596, p. 616, p. 619, p. 622, p. 628, p. 636.
• Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Essex Institute. ENG url p. 171.
• Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, [1876-1883] ENG url p. 202.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 180.
• Color key to North American birds, by Frank M. Chapman with upward of 800 drawings by Chester A. Reed, B. S. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. ENG url p. 293.
• Dansk ornithologisk forenings tidsskrift. [Kavn]: Den Forening, [1907- DAN url p. 189, p. 190.
• 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.)
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. ENG url p. 856.
• Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. ENG url p. 22.
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• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 497, p. 655, p. 690, p. 703.
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Notes

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 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 26, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Royal British Columbia Museum
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Alaska Museum of the North, University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Bird Collection
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3853076
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178036
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13810502
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178036
• IUCN ID: 48452
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNUC47010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13033

Footnotes

1. Mean = 317.510 meters (1,041.699 feet), Standard Deviation = 446.560 based on 18,274 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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