Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer - BirdForum Opus

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Male
Photo by BevScott
Benito Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico

Diglossa baritula

Identification

10-12 cm; like other flowerpiercers, the bill is black (except for a paler base to lower mandible) with a slight upturn and a hook at the end of the maxilla
Male is greyish-blue above with a darker hood, and a cinnamon rufous underside. Female is greyish olive with more cinnamon on underside. Juveniles are similar to female with more buffy to yellowish underside.

Variation

Males become darker on the underside with bluish extending further down the breast as one moves east and south.

Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female
Photo by Peter R. Bono
Location: Las Guacamayas, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2009

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• D. b. baritula:

• Highlands of central Mexico (south-eastern Jalisco to Isthmus of Tehuántepec)

• D. b. montana:

• Highlands of southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and El Salvador

• D. b. parva:

• Highlands of eastern Guatemala to Honduras and north-central Nicaragua

Habitat

Edges and weedy areas of pine-oak and evergreen forest, suburban gardens, flowering fields. Most frequent between 1200 and 3500 m asl but has been observed at 9000 m elevation.

Behaviour

Immature
Photo by Oregonian
Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 28, 2006

The diet includes nectar.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Howell, SNG and S Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0198540120
3. Lauck, C. (2020). Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer (Diglossa baritula), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.cibflo1.01
4. BirdForum Member observations

• List of references

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