The Puerto Rican Ornithological Society [Sociedad Ornitológica de Puertorriqueña, Inc (SOPI)] just lately introduced that Puerto Rico formally has a brand new endemic hummingbird: Zumbador Dorado. Beforehand generally known as Antillean Mango, it should now be referred to as the Puerto Rican Mango (Anthracothorax aurulentus) in Puerto Rico, and in Hispaniola, will probably be referred to as the Hispaniolan Mango (Anthracothorax dominicus).
That’s proper, the “American Birding Affiliation” has already printed a abstract of the brand new taxonomic complement of the AOS. One of many proposals for taxonomic modifications accepted for this yr was the Zumbador Dorado [Anthracothorax aurulentus, previously known in English as the Antillean Mango], which is simply present in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
Each populations, amongst different issues, present a special coloration in males, and the tail in females is completely different. When the advice is accepted, it brings our variety of official endemics to 18.
The English identify modifications from Antillean Mango to Puerto Rican Mango and the scientific identify to Anthracothorax aurulentus. In Spanish it should proceed to be Zumbador Dorado.
You possibly can see the abstract of the complement >>right here<<.
For extra data, see https://www.sopipr.org/submit/nueva-ave-endpercentC3percentA9mica-para-puerto-rico
[Photo above by Alfredo Irizarry.]