Redécouverte de l’Ariane à ventre roux en Colombie

Oswaldo Cortes-Herrera, Alejandro Hernández-Jaramillo and Efrén Briceño-Buitrago from the Universidad Distrital « Francisco José de Caldas », Bogotá, Colombia, report the rediscovery of the Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia castaneiventris, a restricted-range species considered critically endangered, after some 25 years without documented records. They found this hummingbird around Soatá, Department of Boyacá, where 11 specimens were collected a half century ago.
They describe its habitat and present observations of flowers visited, among which those of the Nacedero tree (Tricanthera gigantea) were the most important. They also emphasize the interactions of the local population, both positive (bee-keeping activities stimulate plantings of melliferous vegetation that provides ?owers visited by Amazilia) and negative (subsistence hunting for food).
This article has been published in 2004 in the Ornitología Colombiana journal edited by Colombiana de Ornitologia.