Endangered
Oaxaca hummingbird
Eupherusa cyanophrys
Oaxaca hummingbird is endemic to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Appearance
Both sexes have a straight black bill. Males have a violet-blue forehead, turquoise crown, and emerald green upperparts. Their central pair of tail feathers are green and the other four pairs whitish.
The Oaxaca hummingbird is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 4.1 to 5.4 g (0.14 to 0.19 oz).
Its diet has not been described in detail but it is known to feed at flowers of Inga, Lobelia, Malvaviscus, and Psittacanthus and some others.
Range and habitat
The Oaxaca hummingbird is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra Madre del Sur (also called Sierra de Miahuatlán) in southern Oaxaca. It inhabits the edges and interior of humid montane, semi-deciduous, and pine-oak forest. In elevation it ranges between 700 and 2,600 m (2,300 and 8,500 ft) and is most common below 1,800 m (5,900 ft).
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Oaxaca hummingbird forages for nectar at all levels of the forest from the understory to the canopy. It is also assumed to feed on small arthropods like other hummingbirds.
Little is known about the Oaxaca hummingbird's breeding phenology.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca hummingbird, Wikidata item Q370391. 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.
