White-necked Jacobin

Subspecies flabellifera
Photo by Steve G
Arnos Vale, Tobago, July 2006

Florisuga mellivora

Identification

Nominate subspecies is 4.5 inches
Male has a dark blue head and breast, white lower breast and abdomen, white crescent on nape, and rest of upperside is greenish (see middle picture).

Female is similar (sometimes identical) but most often differs in being bronze-green above, green feathers on throat and breast having white tips giving a scaly apprearance, tail having a black subterminal band, and tipped white (see lower picture). Bill is black and straight, but with drooping tip.

Nominate subspecies
Photo by NJLarsen
Asa Wright, Trinidad, April 2004

The subspecies flabellifera is larger (and see the upper picture).

Distribution

The nominate subspecies is widespread from southern Mexico through Central America (but not Caribbean) to Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil; range includes Trinidad.

Subspecies flabellifera is only known from Tobago.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• F. m. mellivora:

• Tropical southern Mexico to northern Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil; Trinidad

Female of nominate subspecies
Photo by Pitter
Dapa, Colombia, December 2003

• F. m. flabellifera:

• Tobago (southern Lesser Antilles)

Habitat

Found in forested areas including edges, from just above sea level to around 1300 meters. More often at canopy than low.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes nectar, and insects.

References

Photo by scottishdude
Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica, March 2011

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-necked Jacobin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 22 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-necked_Jacobin

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