Green-backed Firecrown

Like its cousin the Juan Fernández Firecrown, the Green-back often hangs from flower petals or leaves with its feet. Their nests are built in high branches or bushes. They like to eat insects, and nectar from flowers.

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The Green-backed Firecrown is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Green-backed Firecrown (Sephanoides sephaniodes) is a hummingbird that is found in Argentina and Chile. It can be fairly common in some locations, especially the Robinson Crusoe Island, 350 miles off the Chilean coast. It is found as far south as Tierra del Fuego. Like its cousin the Juan Fernández Firecrown, the Green-back often hangs from flower petals or leaves with its feet. Their nests are built in high branches or bushes. They like to eat insects, inch worms, and nectar from flowers. More

sound of green-backed firecrown - Audio - Mouse over the speaker at the bottom of the screen to hear the sound of "green-backed firecrown" other translations of green-backed firecrown - Other Translations English - Noun green-backed firecrown 1. A bird of South-America, that is capable of flying without moving forward. More

The Green-backed Firecrown (Sephanoides sephanoides) occurs in western Argentina and Chile. It can be fairly common in some locations, especially the island of Isla Robinson Crusoe, 350 miles off the Chilean coast. Go to the page about the Juan Fernandez Firecrown for more information about this island and its endemic hummingbird. The photos on this page were taken on Isla Robinson Crusoe in February 2000 with a Canon EOS 3 and an EF 300mm F4 IS lens and flash on Fuji Velvia pushed one stop. More

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The Green-backed Firecrown occurs widely in Argentina and Chile, but the Juan Fernández Firecrown is found solely on Isla Róbinson Crusoe, one of a three-island archipelago belonging to Chile. Both species will hang from flower petals or leaves with their feet. They feed on nectar and insects References - * ITIS Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia. More

Green-backed Firecrown with Chicks by Juan Bahamon - Click Image to enter Slide Show SlideShow | Image Information | Contact the Photographer Image information - Description Portfolio Juan Bahamon Capture Medium Digital Capture Capture Format 35mm Location Island Robinson Crusoe, Ecuador URL More

green-backed firecrown (Sephanoides sephanoides), a South American hummingbird - Bradley Hartman Bakken1 and Pablo Sabat2,3 1Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; 2Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ciencias Ecol More

Green-backed Firecrowns are ubiquitous and abundant in the region but migrate north during winter (except on the Quetrihue Peninsula in the Andean lake Lago Nahuel Huapi in adjacent Argentina, where they are year-round residents, found with the winter-blooming mistletoe Tristerix). Accordingly, the numbers of these red-flowering plants in bloom generally follow the bird More

green-backed firecrowns was 19 ± 2 mg h-1 (n = 5). Metabolic water production rates The rates of MWP in resting hummingbirds were 22 ± 3 (n = 8) and 23 ± 2 \iL h-1 (n = 5) during the day and night, respectively (Fig. IB). TEWL was significantly greater than MWP during both the day (paired t-test, t7 = -14.52, P < 0.0001) and night (paired t-test, t4 = -7.53, P = 0.0017). More

potential impacts of the green-backed firecrown on food availability and food access for the endemic. Juan Fernández females spent a significantly greater proportion of their time foraging for arthropods than Juan Fernández males, or green-backed firecrowns. Hummingbirds in native juan bueno (Rhaphithamnus venustus) habitat spent a significantly greater proportion of their time foraging for arthropods than in any other habitat type, suggesting native habitat is a significantly better source of arthropod resources. More

Order : Apodiformes
Family : Trochilidae
Genus : Sephanoides
Species : sephaniodes
Authority : (Lesson, 1827)