Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Eugenes
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis

Ruth Partida-Lara and Paula L. Enríquez
Version: 1.0 — Published September 22, 2017

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2017. Species factsheet: Magnificent Hummingbird Eugenes fulgens. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 22 September 2017.

Chesser, R.T., K.J. Burns, C. Cicero, J.L. Dunn, A.W. Kratter, I.J. Lovette, P.C. Rasmussen, J.V. Remsen, Jr., J.D. Rising, D.F. Stotz, and K. Winker. 2017. Fifty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American birds. Auk 134: 751-773.

Howell, S.N.G. 2010. Molt in North American birds. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, New York, New York.

Lawrence, G.N. 1867. Description of new species of American birds. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 8: 466-482.

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.

McGuire, J.A., C.C. Witt, J.V. Remsen, Jr., A. Corl, D.L. Rabosky, D.L. Altshuler, and R. Dudley. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics and the diversification of hummingbirds. Current Biology 24: 910-916.

Miller, R.S., and C.L. Gass. 1985. Survivorship in hummingbirds: is predation important? Auk 102: 175-178.

Powers, D.R. 2013. Magnificent Hummingbird (Eugenes fulgens), The Birds of North America Online (P.G. Rodewald editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York; retrieved from the Birds of North America Online.

Powers, D.R., J.A. Van Hook, E.A. Sandlin, and T.J. McWhorterJ. 2010. Arthropod foraging by a southeastern Arizona hummingbird guild. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122: 494-502.

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

Ridgely, R.S., and J.A. Gwynne, Jr. 1989. A guide to the birds of Panama with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Second edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Ridgway, R. 1911. The birds of North and Middle America. Part V. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 50, part 5.

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

Stiles, F.G., and A.F. Skutch. 1989. A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York.

Wetmore, A. 1968. The birds of the Republic of Panama. Part 2. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections volume 150, part 2.

Wolf, L.L., F.G. Stiles, F.G, and F.R. Hainsworth. 1976. Ecological organization of a tropical, highland hummingbird community. Journal of Animal Ecology 45: 349-379.

Recommended Citation

Partida-Lara, R. and P. L. Enríquez (2017). Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.maghum2.01