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Sooty-capped Hermit
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Apodiformes
Family:Trochilidae
Genus:Phaethornis
Species:P. augusti
Binomial name
Phaethornis augusti
(Bourcier, 1847)
The Sooty-capped Hermit (Phaethornis augusti) is a hummingbird from Venezuela, Colombia and Guyana. It builds one of the most remarkable nests which hangs by a single stout cable of spiders' silk from some overhead support. These curious nests have been found beneath bridges, in highway culverts, and hanging from the roof inside dark buildings. As far as is known, most other hermits build rather similar nests.

References

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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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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:
  • Alphabetic species list



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Phaethornis
Swainson, 1827

species

see text

Phaethornis is a genus of hummingbirds in the hermit subfamily Phaethornithinae.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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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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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1810s  1820s  1830s  - 1840s -  1850s  1860s  1870s
1844 1845 1846 - 1847 - 1848 1849 1850

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Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
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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:
  • Alphabetic species list



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Motto
[2]
Anthem
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo   (Spanish)
"Glory to the Brave People"
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Motto
"Libertad y Orden"   (Spanish)
"Liberty and Order"
Anthem
Oh, Gloria Inmarcesible!
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Motto
"One people, one nation, one destiny"
Anthem
"Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains"


Capital
(and largest city) Georgetown
Official languages English
Demonym Guyanese
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NEST is an abbreviation for one of the following:
  • The Nuclear Emergency Support Team, a team "prepared to respond immediately to any type of radiological accident or incident anywhere in the world".

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Araneae
Clerck, 1757

Diversity
111 families, 40,000 species

Suborders

Mesothelae
Mygalomorphae
Araneomorphae
 See table of families

Spiders
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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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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
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IUCN

International Organization
Founded October 1948, Fontainebleau, France
Headquarters Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland

Key people Mr Valli Moosa
Ms Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Industry Natural resource conservation
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