Selasphorus platycercus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Minimum Elevation: 1,900 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,750 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,632 meters (0 to 11,916 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.7     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Exclusively: Nectar, Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Clutch Size: 2
• Length of Incubation : 14-17 days
• Days to Fledge : 21-26
• Number of Broods: 1, possibly 2

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Selasphorus platycercus (Swainson, 1827) • Selasphorus platycercus platycercus (Swainson

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Calliope Hummingbird

Members of the genus Selasphorus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

S. ardens (Glow-Throated Hummingbird) · S. flammula (Rose-Throated Hummingbird) · S. flammula flammula (Rose-Throated Hummingbird) · S. platycercus (Broad-Tailed Hummingbird) · S. platycercus platycercus (Broad-Tailed Hummingbird) · S. rufus (Red-Backed Hummingbird) · S. sasin (Allen's Hummingbird) · S. sasin sasin (Allen's Hummingbird) · S. sasin sedentarius (Allen's Hummingbird) · S. scintilla (Scintillant Hummingbird)

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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• 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 Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10296
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178038
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2482044
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178038
• IUCN ID: 241763
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNUC51010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178144

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,785.870 meters (5,859.154 feet), Standard Deviation = 646.620 based on 6,578 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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