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Penelope ochrogaster (Chestnut-bellied Guan)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chestnut-Bellied Guan (Penelope ochrogaster) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found only in Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Penelope ochrogaster

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Penelope ochrogaster

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.05591
EDGE Score: 2.78647
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet [1]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [1]  70 %
Diet - Plants [1]  30 %
Clutch Size [2]  2
Snout to Vent Length [2]  28 inches (71 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cerrado Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cerrado Brazil Yes

Prey / Diet

Handroanthus impetiginosum (Pink Ipê)[3]
Tabebuia aurea (Caribbean trumpet-tree)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
♦ 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
♦ 3Conserving Cracids: The most Threatened Family of Birds in the Americas, Edited by Daniel M. Brooks, Miscellaneous Publications of The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Number 6 (2006)
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