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Penelope marail (Marail Guan)

Synonyms: Phasianus spec (pro parte)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Marail guan (Penelope marail) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.11608
EDGE Score: 1.4149

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.933 lbs (877 g)
Diet [2]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Incubation [1]  29 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  26 inches (65 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Imataca Forest Reserve VI 13252422 Venezuela  
Maracá Ecological Reserve Ia 257554 Roraima, Brazil  
Ralleigh Falls - Voltzberg Nature Reserve 191114 Suriname  

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Eugenia coffeifolia[3]
Euterpe oleracea (Assai palm)[3]
Minquartia guianensis (Black Manwood)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Crax alector (Black Curassow)2
Psophia crepitans (Grey-winged Trumpeter)2

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
3del 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
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