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Ptilogonys cinereus (Gray Silky-flycatcher)

Synonyms: Ptiliogonys cinereus

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey silky-flycatcher or grey silky (Ptiliogonys cinereus), is a species of bird in the Ptiliogonatidae family.It is usually found only in Guatemala and Mexico, but vagrants have turned up in the southern United States.It is found in montane forest and adjacent scrub, both mesic and xeric.
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Infraspecies

Ptilogonys cinereus cinereus
Ptilogonys cinereus molybdophanes
Ptilogonys cinereus otofuscus
Ptilogonys cinereus pallescens

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 18.2222
EDGE Score: 2.95606
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  34 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Mexican highland forests, Tropical cloud forests, Pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Mexican highland forests, Tropical cloud forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Forages - Understory [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Fledging [4]  22 days
Incubation [4]  17 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Proyecto Ecologico Quetzal   Guatemala    
Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo Biosphere Reserve 353161 Mexico  
Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve VI 955579 Queretaro, Mexico  
Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve VI 23405 Durango, Mexico  

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Cleyera theaeoides[6]
Monnina xalapensis[6]
Psittacanthus schiedeanus[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Elaenia frantzii (Mountain Elaenia)1
Ptilogonys caudatus (Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher)2
Turdus plebejus (Mountain Thrush)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Birds from Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl, Mexico. Raymond A. Paynter, Jr., The Auk Vol. 69, No. 3 (Jul., 1952), pp. 293-301
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6LIFE HISTORY OF THE LONG-TAILED SILKY-FLYCATCHER, WITH NOTES ON RELATED SPECIES, ALEXANDER F. SKUTCH, The Auk, 82: 375-426. July, 1965
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0