Red-fox coquette [1] ( lat. Lophornis delattrei ) is a hummingbird-shaped bird of the hummingbird-coquette genus. Red-faced flirts are common in Central and South America.
| Red-faced coquette |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Suborder : | Hummingbird ( Trochili ) |
| Subfamily : | Typical hummingbirds |
| Gender: | Hummingbird coquette |
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| International scientific name |
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Lophornis delattrei ( Lesson , 1839) |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22687208 |
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Red-faced coquette is a small bird. Its length is 7 centimeters, it weighs 2.8 grams. Beak of coral color with dark spots. The head and neck of males are green, the belly is darker, with reddish spots. The back is bluish brown. The tail feathers are burgundy, slightly bronze at the ends. There is a white stripe near the nadhvost. On the head there is a bright coral-colored tuft with black tips. The female has less bright plumage. She has a speckled brown (from light red to golden) neck, the belly is darker than males, and there is a black stripe on the tail.
The red-fox coquette usually lives at an altitude of about 500-1400 meters above sea level, but sometimes they were found higher, about two kilometers. In food, he prefers nectar of Inga flowers, sometimes he also eats nectar from plants of the madder family. As a rule, these birds are found in forests and at the edges.
Red-breasted coquette - loners. Most often they are met on flowers and shrubs. The flight, according to some reports, is similar to the flight of a bee, but it is difficult to notice this because of the small size of the bird.
Currently, two subspecies of the red-faced coquette are known [2]
- Lophornis delattrei delattrei ( Lesson , 1839). [3]
- Lophornis delattrei lessoni ( Simon , 1921). [four]
The lessoni subspecies is found on the mountainsides in the southwest of Costa Rica and Panama, and in the east of the Andes in Colombia . A subspecies delattrei lives in the Andes, province of Napo . In Peru, lives in Maranhon , in northern Bolivia, in Beni and Santa Cruz . [five]
Rene Lesson described these birds under the name Ornismya Delattrei . Later, the red-cocked coquette was assigned to the genus of coquette. [3] The Latin name comes from the Greek " λοφος ", which means "bangs, mane" and "ορνις" - "bird". [6] The specific name “Delattrei” was given in honor of Pierre-Adolph Delatre (1805-1854), co-author of an article on the red-faced coquette. [7] The name of the second subspecies "Lessoni" was given, respectively, in honor of Rene Lesson.
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 165. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ IOC World Bird List Hummingbirds
- ↑ 1 2 René Primevère Lesson in Pierre Adolphe Delattre ua, S. 19
- ↑ Eugène Simon, S. 53, 285
- ↑ Internet Bird Collection Rufous-Crested Coquette
- ↑ James A. Jobling S. 230
- ↑ René Primevère Lesson in Pierre Adolphe Delattre ua, S. 13 Dies geht aus der Überschrift des Artikels hervor.
- Thomas Schulenberg, Douglas F. Stotz, Daniel F. Lane: Birds of Peru , Princeton University Press, 2007, Seite 224, ISBN 978-0691049151
- Robert S. Ridgely, Paul J. Greenfield: Birds of Ecuador Field Guide , Vol. 2, Cornell University Press, 2001, S. 255, ISBN 978-0-8014-8721-7
- F. Gary Stiles, Dana Gardner, Alexander F. Skutch: A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica . Comstock Publishing Associates, 1990, Seite 216, ISBN 978-0801496004
- Steve NG Howell, Sophie Webb: A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America , Oxford University Press, 1995, Seite 399, ISBN 978-0198540120
- David Burnie, Ben Hoare, Audobon: Bird , 2007, Seite 295 ISBN 978-0756631536
- Steven L. Hilty, William L. Brown: A Guide to the Birds of Colombia. Princeton University Press, 1986, S. 262, ISBN 978-0691083728
- James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010 , ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .
- Pierre Adolphe Delattre, René Primevère Lesson: Oiseaux-Mouches nouveaux au très rares, decouverts par M. De Lattre dans son voyage en Amérique et décrits . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . Bd. 2, 1839 , S. 13-20 ( online , abgerufen am 29. Juni 2014 ).
- Eugène Simon: Histoire naturelle des Trochilidae (synopsis et catalog) . L. Mulo, Paris 1921 ( online , abgerufen am 29. Juni 2014 ).
