Endangered
Mangrove hummingbird
Amazilia boucardi
Mangrove hummingbird is endemic to Costa Rica.
Appearance
Both sexes have a medium length bill, slightly decurved, with a black maxilla and a reddish mandible with a dusky tip. Adult males have golden to bronze-green upperparts and flanks. Their chin, throat, and breast are glittering bluish green with white bars near the end of the chin feathers.
The mangrove hummingbird is 9.5 to 11 cm (3.7 to 4.3 in) long and weighs about 4.5 g (0.16 oz).
One form of vocalization has been described in words as a "soft djt sound that is rapid and given in a descending twitter." Habitat The mangrove hummingbird is sedentary.
Range and habitat
It is found only on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. It inhabits large stands of tea mangrove Pelliciera rhizophorae and sometimes adjacent terrestrial second growth. It is endemic to Costa Rica.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The mangrove hummingbird forages for nectar, primarily at mangrove flowers. The mangrove hummingbird's breeding season spans from October to February.
It builds a cup nest of balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) floss and other soft plant fibers bound with spiderweb and with lichens on the outside.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Mangrove hummingbird is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mangrove hummingbird, Wikidata item Q303120. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
