Talamanca Hummingbird (Eugenes spectabilis) - BirdLife species factsheet

Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic note
Previously lumped with E. fulgens (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) but split based on differences in plumage (Renner and Schuchmann 2004), with stronger green back, slightly deeper green glittering throat and richer glittering purple crown, and in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (Zamudio-Beltrán and Hernández-Baños 2015), as well as clear, although unpublished, differences in vocalizations. Monotypic.

Taxonomic source(s)
Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International. 2022. Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: https://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2022	Least Concern
2016	Not Recognised
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	does not normally occur in forest
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	17,600 km²
Area of Occupancy (breeding/resident)	8,000 km²
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	stable	-	suspected	-
Generation length	2.52 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The population size has not been quantified.

Trend justification: The population trend has not been assessed. Tree cover loss within the range is negligible (<1% over ten years; Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein); therefore, in the absence of evidence for any declines or substantial threats, the population is tentatively assessed as stable.

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Costa Rica	extant	native	yes
Panama	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	suitable	resident
Altitude	1600 - 3850 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Talamanca Hummingbird Eugenes spectabilis. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/talamanca-hummingbird-eugenes-spectabilis on 26/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 26/11/2024.