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Bird name:

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Amazilia yucatanensisOrder: APODIFORMES Family: Hummingbirds (Trochilidae)

Codes: Common Name: BBEH Scientific Name: AMAYUC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178060

Breeding Location:

Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Forest

Breeding Type:

Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Fairly common to common

Egg Color:

White

Number of Eggs:

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Plant fibers, fine stems, shreds of bark, and spiderwebs.

Migration:

Nonmigratory

General

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Medium-sized hummingbird with iridescent green upperparts, head, throat, and upper breast, and buff lower breast and belly. Slightly forked tail is dark chestnut-brown with cinnamon-brown undertail coverts. Bill is slightly decurved and red with a black tip. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Common in southeast Texas and Mexico. Preferred habitats include open woodlands, shrublands, scrubs, and citrus groves.

Breeding and Nesting

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a nest made of plant fibers, fine stems, shreds of bark, and spider webs, lined with plant down, and covered outside with lichens and flower petals. Female incubates eggs for about 14 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Feeds primarily on nectar but takes some insects.

Vocalization

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Call is a high-pitched, repeated "siik"; also gives a hard 'chip."

Similar Species

Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Rufous Hummingbird has a straight black bill and lacks green head and breast.

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Buff-bellied Hummingbird

● Song: "siik", "chip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Feeds primarily on nectar but takes some insects.

● Breeding & nesting: Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Two white eggs are laid in a nest made of plant fibers, fine stems, shreds of bark, and spider webs, lined with plant down, and covered outside with lichens and flower petals. Female incubates eggs for about 14 days.

● Similar species: Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Rufous Hummingbird has a straight black bill and lacks green head and breast.

Flight Pattern

Direct and hovering flight with very rapid wing beats.

Buff-bellied Hummingbird Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Buff-bellied Hummingbird: Common in southeast Texas and Mexico. Preferred habitats include open woodlands, shrublands, scrubs, and citrus groves.

^BreedingSolitary nester

^PopulationFairly common to common

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.1 Ounces

Undertail coverts

Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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Buff-bellied Hummingbird

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General

Range and Habitat

Breeding and Nesting

Foraging and Feeding

Vocalization

Similar Species

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

Flight Pattern