Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Heliomaster
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Plain-capped Starthroat Heliomaster constantii

Marîa del Coro Arizmendi, Claudia I. Rodríguez-Flores, Carlos A. Soberanes-González, and Thomas S. Schulenberg
Version: 1.0 — Published January 3, 2014

Diet and Foraging

Diet

Plain-capped Starthroat presumably is primarily nectarivorous. Flowering plants that this hummingbird is reported to visit include Agave macroacantha, Bromelia pinguinCombretum fructicosum, Erythrina chiapansa, E. goldman, E. lanata, E. pudica, E. tuxtlana, Genipa carutoHamelia versicolor, Ceiba aesculifolia, Ceiba, Bomacopsis, Tabebuia, Ipomoea quamoclit, Justicia mexicana, Ipomoea bracteata, Opuntia excelsa, Tillandsia paucifolia, and Nopalea karwinskiana, and occasionally Heliconia (Arizmendi and Ornelas 1990, Grij et al. 1990, Arizmendi et al. 1994, Stiles and Skutch 1989, Wolf 1970).

Plain-capped Starthroats also consume small insects (Dickey and van Rossem 1938, Remsen et al. 1986), as do most if not all species of hummingbirds.

Foraging Behavior

Recommended Citation

Arizmendi, M. d. C., C. I. Rodríguez-Flores, C. A. Soberanes-González, and T. S. Schulenberg (2014). Plain-capped Starthroat (Heliomaster constantii), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.plcsta.01