Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
---|---|
Czech | kolibřík mangrovový |
Dutch | Mangroveamazilia |
English | Mangrove Hummingbird |
English (United States) | Mangrove Hummingbird |
French | Ariane de Boucard |
French (France) | Ariane de Boucard |
German | Mangrovenamazilie |
Japanese | マングローブエメラルドハチドリ |
Norwegian | mangrovekolibri |
Polish | szmaragdzik namorzynowy |
Russian | Мангровая амазилия |
Serbian | Mangrovski amazilija kolibri |
Slovak | kolibrík mangrovový |
Spanish | Amazilia de Manglar |
Spanish (Costa Rica) | Colibrí de Manglar |
Spanish (Spain) | Amazilia de manglar |
Swedish | mangrovesmaragd |
Turkish | Mangrov Kolibri |
Ukrainian | Аріан мангровий |
SPECIES
Mangrove Hummingbird Amazilia boucardi
David Luther
Version: 1.0 — Published April 1, 2009
Version: 1.0 — Published April 1, 2009
Account navigation Account navigation
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).