Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Leucippus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
This is a historic version of this account.   Current version

Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick
Version: 1.0 — Published February 15, 2015

References

Introduction

Bangs, O., and G.K. Noble. 1918. List of birds collected on the Harvard Peruvian Expedition of 1916. Auk 35: 442-463.

BirdLife International. 2015. Species factsheet: Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 12 February 2015.

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.

Freile, J.F.,R. Ahlman, D.M. Brinkuizen, P.J. Greenfield, A. Solano-Ugalde, L. Navarrete, and R.S. Ridgely. 2013. Rare birds in Ecuador: first annual report of the Committee of Ecuadorian Records in Ornithology (CERO). Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías 5: B24-B41.

Koepcke, M. 1961. Birds of the western slope of the Andes of Peru. American Museum Novitates number 2028.

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.

Peters, J.L. 1945. Check-list of birds of the world. Volume V. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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 P.J. Greenfield. 2006. Aves del Ecuador: guia de campo. Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco, Ecuador.

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., and T.A. Parker III. 1981. Status and distribution of some northwest Peruvian birds. Condor 83: 209-216.

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.

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, Chicago, Illinois.

Sclater, P.L. 1879. [Exhibition and description of a new hummingbird, Thaumasius taczanowskii, from northern Peru]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1879] 145-146.

Weller, A.A. 1999. Spot-throated Hummingbird Leucippus taczanowskii. Page 592 in J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors), Handbook of the birds of the world. Volume 5. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Zimmer, J.T. 1950. Studies of Peruvian birds. No. 59. The genera Polytmus, Leucippus, and Amazilia. American Museum Novitates number 1475.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2015). Spot-throated Hummingbird (Leucippus taczanowskii), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.spthum2.01
Birds of the World

Partnerships

A global alliance of nature organizations working to document the natural history of all bird species at an unprecedented scale.