World Species : Penelope jacquacu (Spix's Guan)

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Penelope jacquacu (Spix's Guan)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Spix's guan (Penelope jacquacu) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its estimated global range is approximately 5,000,000 km² and is common in at least parts of this range. It is therefore considered a least concern species by the IUCN. The common name commemorates the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix (1782-1826).

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Infraspecies

Penelope jacquacu granti (Spix's guan)
Penelope jacquacu jacquacu (Spix's guan)
Penelope jacquacu orienticola (Spix's guan)
Penelope jacquacu speciosa (Spix's guan)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.46872

EDGE Score: 1.4971

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	3.34 lbs (1.515 kg)
Female Weight ^[4]	3.111 lbs (1.411 kg)
Male Weight ^[4]	3.459 lbs (1.569 kg)
Weight Dimorphism ^[4]	11.2 %

Diet ^[2]	Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	80 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Canopy ^[2]	40 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	60 %

Female Maturity ^[3]	3 years
Male Maturity ^[3]	3 years

Clutch Size ^[3]	2
Clutches / Year ^[3]	1
Maximum Longevity ^[3]	14 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	28 inches (71 cm)

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Llanos	Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests	Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Prey / Diet

Euterpe edulis (Assai palm)	^[5]
Euterpe precatoria	^[5]
Virola calophylla (virola)	^[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Leopardus pardalis (Ocelot)

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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
♦ ³Use and conservation of Cracidae (Aves: Galliformes) in the Peruvian Amazon, Alfredo J. Begazo and Richard E. Bodmer, ORYX VOL 32 NO 4 OCTOBER 1998, pp. 301-309
♦ ⁴Delacour, J. and Amadon, D. 1973. Curassows and Related Birds. American Museum of Natural History, New York
♦ ⁵del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁶Russo, SE 2003. Responses of dispersal agents to tree and fruit traits in Virola calophylla (Myristicaceae): Implications for selection Oecologia 136:80–87
♦ ⁷Leopardus pardalis, Julie L. Murray and Gregory L. Gardner, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 548, pp. 1-10 (1997)

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

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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