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Rostrhamus sociabilis (Snail Kite)

Synonyms: Herpetotheres sociabilis
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) is a bird of prey within the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks, and Old World vultures. Its relative, the slender-billed kite, is now again placed in Helicolestes, making the genus Rostrhamus monotypic. Usually, it is placed in the milvine kites, but the validity of that group is under investigation.
View Wikipedia Record: Rostrhamus sociabilis

Infraspecies

Rostrhamus sociabilis levis
Rostrhamus sociabilis major
Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus (Everglades kite) (Attributes)
Rostrhamus sociabilis sociabilis (Southern snail kite)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.99097
EDGE Score: 2.39707
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Attributes

Clutch Size [6]  2
Clutches / Year [4]  2
Fledging [2]  30 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  2,000,000
Incubation [4]  30 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  17 years
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7]  128
Snout to Vent Length [2]  17 inches (44 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds
Wing Span [8]  3.51 feet (1.07 m)
Adult Weight [2]  376 grams
Birth Weight [4]  29 grams
Female Weight [2]  400 grams
Male Weight [2]  352 grams
Weight Dimorphism [2]  13.6 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [3]  Freshwater marshes
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  100 %
Forages - Ground [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Helicolestes hamatus (Slender-billed Kite)2
Jabiru mycteria (Jabiru)1
Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bothrigaster variolaris[10]
Echinostoma armatum[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish 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
♦ 6Jetz 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
♦ 7Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9ALTERNATIVE FOODS OF A DIET SPECIALIST, THE SNAIL KITE, STEVEN R. BEISSINGER, The Auk 107: 327-333. April 1990
♦ 10Gibson, 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