Eupherusa cyanophrys

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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: montaine evergreen forests, tropical deciduous forests • Minimum Elevation: 700 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,600 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Southern Mexican Highlands • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,013 meters (0 to 16,447 feet).[1]

Ecology: It is primarily restricted to cloud-forest and the upper reaches of tropical semi-deciduous forest at 1,300-1,950 m, occasionally wandering (possibly seasonally) to c.700 m on adjacent mountain slopes . It also occurs up to 2,500 m, but at lower densities3. Nesting has been recorded in September-November and May3.

[2].

List of Habitats :

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

Synonyms

Eupherusa cyanophrys J. S. Rowley & Orr, 1964 • Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley • Eupherusa cyanophrys Rowley & Orr, 1964

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eupherusa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. cyanophrys (Blue-Capped Hummingbird) · E. eximia (Stripe-Tailed Hummingbird) · E. eximia eximia (Stripe-Tailed Hummingbird) · E. nigriventris (Black-Bellied Hummingbird) · E. poliocerca (White-Tailed Hummingbird)

More Info

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 52.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 111, p. 131, p. 189.
• 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. 103, p. 178, p. 76.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 180.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 156.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Eupherusa cyanophrys. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2008. Eupherusa cyanophrys. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 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 February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10142
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-555179
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481022
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555179
• IUCN ID: 208962
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5078

Footnotes

1. Mean = 635.460 meters (2,084.843 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,032.040 based on 24,066 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2008. Eupherusa cyanophrys. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. ... [back]

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