Pizo • LEK BEHAVIOR OF THE PLOVERCREST 
111 
° Mean 
I I Mean±SE 
F MeaniSD 
Males 
FIG. 4. Box plots showing lek attendance (A) and singing rate (B) of seven male Plovercrests observed at a lek. Singing 
rates and territory attendance for each male were recorded during I - and 15-min periods, respective y. space our y 
ObOO to 1800 hrs. Sampling was spread over 20 days from August to December 2006. 
TABLE 1. Lek characteristics of Trochilinae hummingbirds. Ranges are presented whenever data for more than one 
individual territory and/or more than one lek were available. Species are in alphabetical order. _ 
Species 
Territorial 
males/lck 
Area of 
territories (nr) 
Distance between 
territories (m) 
Perch 
height (m) 
Source* 
^tozilia amabilh 
5 
15-30 
2.4-6 
T 1C 
6 
9 
A Candida 
A- Kacatl 
3-7 
2-4 
<450 
14- 32 
15- 22 
3-15 
2-6 
7 
14 
Cm PyIopterits cumpeimis 
- ipennis 
up to 15 
2-10 
11. 12 
2-4 
10 
C excellens 
2-3 
16 
4 
r - hemileucwvs 
4 
8 
C hrgipennis 
2-4 
3 3 6 
4 
c nifus 
Petnmeiui mac rour a 
Wucharis eliciae 
K,ais guimeti 
l>nae °chroa cuvierii 
2 
15 
3 
4 
4 
133-266 
24-120 
<30 
15 
38 
0.3-4.2 
5- 13 
6- 18 
6-12 
13 
6 
2 
3 
Maspharux platycercus 
U'Phanoxis lalandi 
3 
2-7 
9-25 
7 
9-25 
0.8-3.5 
5 
This study 
yaza pella 
2-20 
10.5 
I 
‘Sources' l r>n, .losxt ? skutch (I9S8): 3. Skuich < 1964b): 4. Skuich (1967): 5. Barash (1972): 6. Skutch (1972): 7. Skuich (1981): 8. Hills and Broun 
"*6):9, Atwood«al (1991);’ 10. Winker'e, al. (1992): II. Hayes el al. (1997); 12. Hayes el al. (2000); 13. Pizo and Silva (2001); 14. Hayes (2002). 
