Hooded Visorbearer
Augastes lumachella
Small, strikingly beautiful hummingbird with a short straight bill. Males have a distinctive head pattern: a black forehead and cheeks framing the green around the bill and a small golden patch on the throat. Females have a grayish face and brown sides to the head. Note the rusty tail and white breast band in both sexes. Occurs in high-elevation areas with rocks, shrubs, and cacti.
识别特征
The hooded visorbearer is a small hummingbird, measuring 8.3–10 cm (3.3–3.9 in) in length and weighing 4–4.8 g (0.14–0.17 oz). Its short, straight bill is black. The species is moderately sexually dimorphic. The male is an iridescent bronzy-green color on the upperparts and underparts. His forehead and throat are an iridescent golden-green with a narrow border of bluish-green at the lower edge of the throat. The sides and crown of his head are black, and a thin line of black borders his gorget. He has a narrow white breast band with a golden-orange spot in the center and purplish-brown wings. His tail is a deep bronzy-crimson. The female's coloring is more subdued. She is more bronzy on her upperparts and underparts, and her head is green instead of black. She has a gray face and the sides of her head are brown, rather than black. The green on her throat is less colorful and iridescent than that of the male's, with a stronger border of bluish-green at the lower edge; the color does not extend to her forehead. Immature birds are bronzy-green above and brown below, with a white throat speckled with green. Their tails are a coppery-bronze above and crimson below, less brilliantly-colored than those of adults. The combination of head pattern and tail color is said to make this species "unmistakable" within its small natural range.<p>The song of the hooded visorbearer is described as "nasal" and "dry". Transcribed as tru tweé tru zee, its short phrases are typically repeated more than three times in a row.
分类信息
Rene Primevere Lesson first described the hooded visorbearer for science in 1838, using a specimen collected in Bahia, Brazil. He named it Ornismya lumachella. Five years later, Lesson moved it and four other species to his newly created genus Amazilis. John Gould moved it again in 1849, when he created the genus Augastes for this species and the hyacinth visorbearer, another east Brazilian endemic. There are no subspecies. DNA studies have shown that the two Augastes hummingbirds are sister species, and that the genus is most closely related to Geoffroy's daggerbill.<p>The genus name Augastes comes directly from the Ancient Greek augastes, meaning "radiant" or "light-giver". The species name lumachella is an Italian word for fire marble – a dark limestone that contains fossilised shells; it is a diminutive of the word for snail (lumacha). Although the species name is sometimes written as lumachellus rather than lumachella, this is incorrect; because it is an Italian word (rather than a Latinized one), it is considered to be invariable.
- 学名
- Augastes lumachella
- 命名信息
- (Lesson, RP, 1839)
- 目
- Apodiformes
- 科
- Trochilidae
- 属
- Augastes
分布与栖息地
The hooded visorbearer is endemic to eastern Brazil. Found only in the Chapada Diamantina region of Bahia, it is restricted to campo rupestre, a high-elevation ecoregion that is characterized by poor soils, open vegetation, rocky outcrops and harsh climatic conditions. Its occurs at elevations ranging from 900 to 2,000 m (3,000 to 6,600 ft), and is considered to be one of South America's obligate grassland birds. It is found in rocky, semi-arid areas with cactus and low shrubs on the summits of mountains and mesas.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
Migration pattern: Resident species.
保护状况
Population trend: declining.
- 种群趋势
- declining
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