Puerto Rican Ornithological Society [Sociedad Ornitológica de Puertorriqueña, Inc (SOPI)] It recently announced that Puerto Rico officially has a new endemic hummingbird: the Zumbador Dorado. Formerly known as the Antillean Mango, it will now be called the Puerto Rican Mango (Anthracothorax aurulentus) in Puerto Rico and ofIn Hispaniola, it will be called Mango Hispaniolan (Anthracothorax dominicus).
That’s right, the American Birding Association has already published a summary of the new AOS taxonomic supplement. One of the proposals for taxonomic changes accepted for this year was Zumbador Dorado [Anthracothorax aurulentus, previously known in English as the Antillean Mango]which is found only in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola.
The two populations, among other things, show a different coloration in males, and the tail in females is different. When the recommendation is accepted, it brings our number of official endemics to 18.
The English name varies from Antillean Mango to Puerto Rican Mango and the scientific name to Anthracothorax aurulentus. In Spanish it will continue to be Zumbador Dorado.
You can see the summary of the supplement >>here<<.
For more information, see https://www.sopipr.org/post/nueva-ave-end%C3%A9mica-para-puerto-rico
[Photo above by Alfredo Irizarry.]
