Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Metallura
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae

Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published December 13, 2013

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2013. Species factsheet: Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 13 December 2013.

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Colwell, R.K. 2000. Rensch’s Rule crosses the line: convergent allometry of sexual size dimorphism in hummingbirds and flower mites. American Naturalist 156: 495-510.

Cory, C.B. 1913. Descriptions of twenty-eight new species and subspecies of Neotropical birds. Field Museum of Natural History Ornithological Series 1: 283-292.

Fjeldså, J., and N. Krabbe. 1990. Birds of the high Andes: a manual to the birds of the temperate zone of the Andes and Patagonia, South America. Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

García-Moreno, J., P. Arctander, and J. Fjeldså, 1999. Strong diversification at the treeline among Metallura hummingbirds. Auk 116: 702-711.

Graves, G.R. 1980. A new species of metaltail hummingbird from northern Peru. Wilson Bulletin 92: 1-7.

Graves, G.R. 1981. A new subspecies of Coppery Metaltail (Metallura theresiae) from northern Peru. Auk 98: 382.

Heindl, M. 1999. Coppery Metaltail Metallura theresiae. Page 652 in in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Heindl, M., and K.L. Schuchmann. 1998. Biogeography, geographical variation and taxonomy of the Andean hummingbird genus Metallura GOULD, 1847. Journal für Ornithologie 139: 425-473.

McGuire, J.A., C.C. Witt, D.L. Altshuler, and J.V. Remsen, Jr. 2007. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of hummingbirds: Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses of partitioned data and selection of an appropriate partitioning strategy. Systematic Biology 56: 837-856.

McGuire, J.A., C.C. Witt., J.V. Remsen, Jr,. R. Dudley, and D.L. Altshuler. 2009. A higher-level taxonomy for hummingbirds. Journal of Ornithology 150: 155-165.

Remsen, J.V., Jr., F.G. Stiles, and P.E. Scott. 1986. Frequency of arthropods in stomachs of tropical hummingbirds. Auk 103: 436-441.

Schuchmann, K.-L. 1999. Family Trochilidae, hummingbirds. Pages 468-680 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, D. F. Lane, J. P. O’Neill, and T. A. Parker III. 2010. Birds of Peru. Revised and updated edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture, and Conservation, The Field Museum.

Simon, E. 1902. Étude sur les Trochilidés observés au Pérou par G. A. Baer (1900-1901). Novitates Zoologicae 9: 177-183.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. (2013). Coppery Metaltail (Metallura theresiae), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.copmet1.01
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