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Colinus cristatus (Crested Bobwhite)

Synonyms: Tetrao cristatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The crested bobwhite (Colinus cristatus) is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is found in northern South America, extending through Panama to just reach Costa Rica. It also occurs on Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Colinus cristatus badius (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus barnesi (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus bogotensis (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus continentis
Colinus cristatus cristatus (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus decoratus (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus dickeyi
Colinus cristatus horvathi (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus hypoleucus
Colinus cristatus incanus
Colinus cristatus leucopogon
Colinus cristatus leucotis (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus leylandi
Colinus cristatus littoralis (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus mariae (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus mocquerysi (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus panamensis (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus parvicristatus (Crested bobwhite)
Colinus cristatus sclateri
Colinus cristatus sonnini (Crested bobwhite)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.66798
EDGE Score: 1.73483
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  134 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical arid scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical arid scrub
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  90 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  11
Incubation [4]  22 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  8 inches (20 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 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
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