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The article reports on the diet of the neotropical arboreal colubrid snake Oxybelis fulgidus occurring from Mexico to Amazonian Bolivia and Brazil. It describes its natural habitat which includes open areas and lowland wet and dry forest. Like its congener O. aeneus, it is said to be a diurnal forager with a similar diet that includes amphibians, arboreal mammals and small rodents while small birds make up a larger dietary component for O. fulgidus. It documents a predation attempt by an adult O. fulgidus to kill and consume a rufous-tailed hummingbird Trochilidae Amazilia tzacatl that was caught in a net at a bird monitoring site in Tortuguero, Costa Rica in October 2010. It notes a similar case of O. fulgidus opportunistically trying to take a bird caught in a net in El Salvador. |
