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Band-tailed Barbthroat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Apodiformes
Family:Trochilidae
Genus:Threnetes
Species:T. ruckeri
Binomial name
Threnetes ruckeri
(Bourcier, 1847)


The Band-tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes ruckeri) is a medium-sized hummingbird which is a resident breeder from southeastern Guatemala to western Ecuador and western Venezuela.

This hermit species inhabits the understory of wet forests, woodland edges and old second growth. It occurs in the lowlands, typically up to an elevation of 800 m, although young birds may wander higher.

The nest is a cup of plant fibres attached 2-4 m high on the underside of a Heliconia or sometimes a banana leaf. The female alone incubates the two white eggs.

The Band-tailed Barbthroat is 10.2-11 cm long and weighs 5-5.8 g. it has a long decurved bill, and, as with other hermit hummingbirds, the sexes are similar. The adult has bronze-green upperparts, a dark ear patch and dusky malar stripe. The chest is rusty-orange and the underparts are otherwise grey. Young birds resemble the adult, but have buff feather tips.

The southern subspecies T. r. venezuelensis is somewhat duller on the breast than the nominate northern race.

The Band-tailed Barbthroat has a high thin tseep call, and the male’s song, given alone or at a lek, is a didiDIT dew dew in the Caribbean lowlands, but on the Pacific side the song is longer and includes trills and warbles.

Like other hermits, this Barbthroat visits widely separated flowers including Heliconia, Costus spiral gingers, and bananas, and the male is less aggressively territorial than other male hummingbirds.

References

  • Hilty, Birds of Venezuela, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
  • Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica ISBN 0-8014-9600-4

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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Apodiformes
Peters, 1940

Families

Apodidae
Hemiprocnidae
Trochilidae
Fossil forms, see text

Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes
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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:
  • List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order
For an alphabetic species list, see:
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Threnetes

Threnetes is a genus of hummingbird in the Trochilidae family. It contains the following species:
  • Pale-Tailed Barbthroat (Threnetes leucurus)
  • Sooty Barbthroat (Threnetes niger)

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Jules Bourcier (1797 - March 9, 1873) was a French naturalist.

Bourcier was a trochilidist (an expert on hummingbirds), and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
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Trochilidae
Vigors, 1825

Subfamilies

Phaethornithinae
Trochilinae

For a taxonomic list of genera, see:
  • List of hummingbirds in taxonomic order
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Motto
Unofficial: "El País de la Eterna Primavera" 
"Land of Eternal Spring"
Official: "Libre Crezca Fecundo"
"Grow Free and Fertile"
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Guatemala
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Motto
"Dios, patria y libertad"   (Spanish)
"Pro Deo, Patria et Libertas"   (Latin)
"God, homeland and liberty"
Anthem

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Motto
[2]
Anthem
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo   (Spanish)
"Glory to the Brave People"
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Phaethornithinae
Jardine, 1833

Genera

Ramphodon
Eutoxeres
Glaucis
Threnetes
Anopetia
Phaethornis

The Hermits are tropical and subtropical hummingbirds in the subfamily
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Heliconiaceae

Genus: Heliconia
L.

Species

See text.

Heliconia is a genus of about 100 to 200 species of flowering plants native to the tropical Americas and the Pacific Ocean islands west
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BANANA (an acronym of Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything or possibly Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone
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For other uses, see Lek (disambiguation).
A lek is a gathering of males, of certain animal species, for the purposes of competitive mating display. Leks assemble before and during the breeding season, on a daily basis.
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Caribbean (Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Spanish: Caribe
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The Caribbean Lowlands are a common region in Central American nations. It is the area usually on the Eastern side of a country, bordering the Caribbean Sea.

It mainly consists of flat plains that are often wet, because of offrun from the large mountain range–(American
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Costus
L.

Species

Many, see text

Costus is a genus of perennial tropical herbs. They are often characterized (and distinguished from relatives such as Zingiber) by their spiraling stems.
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