Mellisuga minima

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 2,400 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,093 meters (0 to 16,709 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Mellisuga minima (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Mellisuga

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. helenae (Bee Hummingbird) · M. minima (Vervain Hummingbird) · M. minima minima (Vervain Hummingbird)

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• A list of the birds of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Govt. print. off., 1920. url .
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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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 08, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10283
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-693916
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13838819
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 555311
• IUCN ID: 222643
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 132884

Footnotes

1. Mean = 705.410 meters (2,314.337 feet), Standard Deviation = 924.170 based on 85,267 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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