Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Rhodopis
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Alvaro Jaramillo
Version: 1.0 — Published December 5, 2014

References

Introduction

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Oasis Hummingbird Rhodopis vesper. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 5 December 2014.

Brown, J.H., and M.A. Bowers. 1985. Community organization in hummingbirds: relationships between morphology and ecology. Auk 102: 251-269.

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.

Dunning, J.B., Jr. 2008. CRC handbook of avian body masses. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

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.

Hellmayr, C. E. 1932. The birds of Chile. Field Mueum of Natural History Zoological Series volume 19.

Hesse, M., and W. Hesse. 1986. Haltung und Zucht des Atacama-Kolibri (Rhodopis vesper [Lesson 1829]). Gefiederte Welt 110: 94-96.

Jaramillo, A. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Johnson, A.W. 1967. The birds of Chile and adjacent regions of Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. Volume II. Platt Establecimientos Gráficos, Buenos Aires.

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.

Parker, T.A., III, D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick. 1996. Ecological and distributional databases. Pages 113-436 in D.F. Stotz, J.W. Fitzpatrick, T.A. Parker III, and D.K. Moskovits, Neotropical birds: ecology and conservation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

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, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture, and Conservation, The Field Museum.

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.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and A. Jaramillo (2014). Oasis Hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.oashum1.01