- White-necked Jacobin
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White-necked Jacobin 
In Panama Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Apodiformes Family: Trochilidae Genus: Florisuga Species: F. mellivora Binomial name Florisuga mellivora
(Linnaeus, 1758)The White-necked Jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) is a large and attractive hummingbird that ranges from Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and south Brazil. It is also found on Tobago and in Trinidad, but breeding has not been proved on the latter island.
Other common names are Great Jacobin and Collared Hummingbird.
The White-necked Jacobin is a widespread inhabitant of forest, usually being seen at a high perch or just above the canopy. It is less common at lower levels, except near hummingbird feeders.
The approximately 12 cm long male White-necked Jacobin is unmistakable with its white belly and tail, a white band on the nape and a dark blue hood. Immature males have less white in the tail and a conspicuous rufous patch in the malar region. Females are highly variable, and may resemble adult or immature males, have green upperparts, white belly, white-scaled green or blue throat, and white-scaled dark blue crissum, or be intermediate between the aforementioned plumages, though retain the white-scaled dark blue crissum. Females are potentially confusing, but the pattern on the crissum is distinctive and not shared by superficially similar species.
These birds usually visit flowers of tall trees and epiphytes for nectar, and also hawk for insects.
References
Female at a hummingbird feeder
- BirdLife International (2004). Florisuga mellivora. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Birds of Venezuela by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd edition ed.). Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
- A guide to the birds of Costa Rica by Stiles and Skutch ISBN 0-8014-9600-4
External links
- White-necked Jacobin videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Picture of White-necked Jacobin
- Stamps (for Grenada, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Paraguay) with RangeMap
- White-necked Jacobin photo gallery VIREO
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Trochilinae
- Florisuga
- Hummingbird species of Central America
- Birds of Aruba
- Birds of Grenada
- Birds of the Netherlands Antilles
- Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
- Birds of the Lesser Antilles
- Hummingbird species of South America
- Birds of the Guianas
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of Marajó Island
- Birds of Bolivia
- Birds of Colombia
- Birds of Venezuela
- Birds of Ecuador
- Birds of Peru
- Birds of French Guiana
- Birds of Guyana
- Birds of Suriname
- Birds of Mexico
- Native birds of Southern Mexico
- Birds of Belize
- Birds of Guatemala
- Birds of Honduras
- Birds of Nicaragua
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Birds of Panama
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