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Chalcostigma
''Chalcostigma'' is a genus of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. Taxonomy and species list The genus ''Chalcostigma'' was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The type species was subsequently designated as the bronze-tailed thornbill by George Gray. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... ''khalkos'' meaning bronze and ''stigme'' for a spot or mark, a reference to the beard on the bronze-tailed thornbill. The genus contains the following five species: * Rufous-capped thornbill (''Chalcostigma ruficeps'') * Olivaceous thornbill (''Chalcostigma olivaceum'') * Blue-mantled thornbill (''Chalcostigma stanleyi'') * Bronze-tailed thornbill (''Chalcostigma heteropogon'') * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chalcostigma
''Chalcostigma'' is a genus of South American hummingbirds in the family Trochilidae. Taxonomy and species list The genus ''Chalcostigma'' was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The type species was subsequently designated as the bronze-tailed thornbill by George Gray. The name of the genus is derived from the Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ... ''khalkos'' meaning bronze and ''stigme'' for a spot or mark, a reference to the beard on the bronze-tailed thornbill. The genus contains the following five species: * Rufous-capped thornbill (''Chalcostigma ruficeps'') * Olivaceous thornbill (''Chalcostigma olivaceum'') * Blue-mantled thornbill (''Chalcostigma stanleyi'') * Bronze-tailed thornbill (''Chalcostigma heteropogon'') * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainbow-bearded Thornbill
The rainbow-bearded thornbill (''Chalcostigma herrani'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The rainbow-bearded thornbill was formally described in 1846 by the French ornithologists Adolphe Delattre and Jules Bourcier from specimens collected near the town of Pasto in southwest Colombia. They coined the binomial name ''Trochilus herrani''. This bird is now one of five species placed in the genus ''Chalcostigma'' that was introduced in 1854 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. (The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivaceous Thornbill
The olivaceous thornbill (''Chalcostigma olivaceum'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Chalcostigma'' is unsettled. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to merge the genus into '' Oxypogon''. The olivaceous thornbill has two subspecies, the nominate ''C. o. olivaceum'' and ''C. o. pallens''. Description The olivaceous thornbill is long. One male specimen weighed and a female one . Both sexes have a short black bill. Adult males of the nominate subspecies are mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze-tailed Thornbill
The bronze-tailed thornbill (''Chalcostigma heteropogon'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Chalcostigma'' is unsettled. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to merge the genus into '' Oxypogon''. The bronze-tailed thornbill is monotypic. Description The bronze-tailed thornbill is long and weighs . Both sexes have a short straight black bill. Adults are generally bottle green overall, with coppery red uppertail coverts and a forked olive green tail. Adult m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze-tailed Thornbill
The bronze-tailed thornbill (''Chalcostigma heteropogon'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Chalcostigma'' is unsettled. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to merge the genus into '' Oxypogon''. The bronze-tailed thornbill is monotypic. Description The bronze-tailed thornbill is long and weighs . Both sexes have a short straight black bill. Adults are generally bottle green overall, with coppery red uppertail coverts and a forked olive green tail. Adult m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufous-capped Thornbill
The rufous-capped thornbill (''Chalcostigma ruficeps'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Chalcostigma'' and of the rufous-capped thornbill in particular are unsettled. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to merge the genus into '' Oxypogon''. The species was for a time placed in genus ''Metallura'' with the Perijá metaltail (''M. iracunda'') and also has been assigned its own genus, ''Selatopogon''.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue-mantled Thornbill
The blue-mantled thornbill (''Chalcostigma stanleyi'') is a species of hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.HBW and BirdLife International (2020) ''Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world'' Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip xls zipped 1 MBretrieved 27 May 2021 Taxonomy and systematics The taxonomy of genus ''Chalcostigma'' is unsettled. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society is considering a proposal to merge the genus into '' Oxypogon''. The blue-mantled thornbill has three recognized subspecies, the nominate ''C. s. stanleyi'' ( Bourcier, 1851), ''C. s. versigulare'' ( Zimmer, 1924), and ''C. s. vulcani'' (Gould, 1852). Description The blue-mantled thornbill is long; males weigh about and female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Boissonneau
Auguste Boissonneau (26 July 1802, Saumur – 7 July 1883, Paris) was a French ornithologist and ocularist. In the latter field he was a pioneer of ocular prosthesis. As an ornithologist, he was the taxonomic authority of numerous species native to tropical and subtropical South America. The hummingbird genus '' Boissonneaua'' ( Reichenbach, 1854) commemorates his name, as does the species '' Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii'' (streaked tuftedcheek), a bird circumscribed by Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1840. Ornithological taxa described by Boissonneau * Black-chested mountain tanager - ''Cnemathraupis eximia''. * Blue-and-black tanager - ''Tangara vassorii''. * Blue cotinga - ''Cotinga nattererii''. * Bronze-tailed thornbill - ''Chalcostigma heteropogon''. * Buff-breasted mountain tanager - ''Dubusia taeniata''. * Collared inca - ''Coeligena torquata''. * Colombian mountain grackle - ''Macroagelaius subalaris''. * Crimson-mantled woodpecker - ''Piculus rivolii''. * Glos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics around the equator. They are small birds, with most species measuring in length. The smallest extant hummingbird species is the bee hummingbird, which weighs less than . The largest hummingbird species is the giant hummingbird, weighing . They are specialized for feeding on flower nectar, but all species also consume flying insects or spiders. Hummingbirds split from their sister group, the swifts and treeswifts, around 42 million years ago. The common ancestor of extant hummingbirds is estimated to have lived 22 million years ago in South America. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trochilidae
Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae. With about 361 species and 113 genera, they occur from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, but the vast majority of the species are found in the tropics around the equator. They are small birds, with most species measuring in length. The smallest extant hummingbird species is the bee hummingbird, which weighs less than . The largest hummingbird species is the giant hummingbird, weighing . They are specialized for feeding on flower nectar, but all species also consume flying insects or spiders. Hummingbirds split from their sister group, the swifts and treeswifts, around 42 million years ago. The common ancestor of extant hummingbirds is estimated to have lived 22 million years ago in South America. They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings, which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing-flapping rates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bird Genera
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich. There are about ten thousand living species, more than half of which are passerine, or "perching" birds. Birds have whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species. The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for flight. Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for swimming. Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of the zoologist John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray. George Gray's most important publication was his ''Genera of Birds'' (1844–49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references. Biography He was born in Little Chelsea, London, to Samuel Frederick Gray, naturalist and pharmacologist, and Elizabeth (née Forfeit), his wife. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School. Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831. He began by cataloguing insects, and published an ''Entomology of Australia'' (1833) and contributed the entomogical section to an English edition of Georges Cuvier's ''Animal Kingdom''. Gray described many spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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