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Buteo hemilasius (Upland Buzzard)

Wikipedia Abstract

The upland buzzard (Buteo hemilasius) is a species of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
5
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.04982
EDGE Score: 1.11508
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.018 lbs (1.369 kg)
Female Weight [3]  3.486 lbs (1.581 kg)
Male Weight [1]  2.59 lbs (1.175 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  33 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  45 days
Incubation [4]  36 days
Migration [6]  Intracontinental
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [7]  95
Snout to Vent Length [1]  24 inches (62 cm)
Wing Span [4]  4.986 feet (1.52 m)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Great Gobi National Park Ia 13211440 Mongolia  
Sayano-Shushenskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 964620 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Sokhondinskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 521363 Chita, Russia
Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina (Ubsunur Depression) Zapovednik Ia 798640 Tuva, Russia
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cladotaenia vulturi[10]

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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Piechocki, R. 1958. Beiträge zur Avifauna Nord-und Nordost-. Chinas (Mandschurei). Abh. Ber. Mus. Tier Volkerk. Dresden. 24: 105-203
♦ 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
♦ 6Myers, 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
♦ 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
♦ 8SUMMER DIET OF TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF RAPTORS UPLAND BUZZARD (BUTEO HEMILASIUS) AND EURASIAN EAGLE OWL (BUBO BUBO) IN ALPINE MEADOW: PROBLEM OF COEXISTENCE, Qinghu CUI, Jianping SU, Zhigang JIANG, POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Vol 56, 1 pp. 173–179 (2008)
♦ 9The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau, Andrew T. Smith and J. Marc Foggin, Animal Conservation (1999) 2, 235–240
♦ 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