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Bucanetes mongolicus (Mongolian Finch)

Synonyms: Bucanetes mongolicus mongolicus; Carpodacus mongolicus (homotypic); Eremopsaltria mongolica; Rhodopechys mongolica

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mongolian finch (Bucanetes mongolicus), also known as the Mongolian trumpeter finch, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  21 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2 grams
Diet [1]  Granivore
Clutch Size [3]  5
Fledging [1]  18 days
Incubation [1]  13 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Prey / Diet

Agriophyllum squarrosum[4]
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides (Pamirian winterfat)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Capra sibirica (Siberian ibex)1
Cardiocranius paradoxus (five-toed pygmy jerboa)1
Pseudois nayaur (bharal)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 4del 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