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Tigrisoma lineatum (Rufescent Tiger-Heron; Rufescent Tiger Heron)

Synonyms: Ardea lineata
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) is a species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It is found in wetlands from Central America through much of South America.
View Wikipedia Record: Tigrisoma lineatum

Infraspecies

Tigrisoma lineatum lineatum
Tigrisoma lineatum marmoratum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
39
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 25.9571
EDGE Score: 3.29425
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.795 lbs (814 g)
Breeding Habitat [2]  Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Freshwater marshes
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Diet - Vertibrates [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  80 %
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 12 months
Clutch Size [5]  3
Incubation [4]  32 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Leptodactylus chaquensis (Cei's White-lipped Frog)[6]
Pseudis paradoxa (Paradox frog)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Caiman yacare (Yacare caiman)1
Galictis cuja (Lesser Grison)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eustrongylides ignotus[7]
Ithyoclinostomum dimorphum[7]
Porrocaecum reticulatum[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 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
♦ 6Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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