Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Amazilia
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi

David Luther
Version: 1.0 — Published April 1, 2009

Diet and Foraging

Diet

The species prefers nectar of flowers from the buttressed Tea Mangrove Pelliciera rhizophorae. It also eats insects (Ridgley and Gwynne 1989). In an ongoing study, Elizabeth Jones and Abraham Gallo have observed the Mangrove Hummingbird feeding at flowers of an Inga sp. (Fabaceae), the purple flowers of a vine (Maripa nicaraguensis, Convolvulaceae), as well as Heliconia sp. (Heliconiaceae) flowers in a forest clearing within 200 m of the mangrove edge (D. J. Lebbin, personal communication).

Foraging Behavior

Recommended Citation

Luther, D. (2009). Mangrove Hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.manhum1.01