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Cyrtonyx montezumae (Montezuma Quail)

Synonyms: Ortyx montezumae (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.68733
EDGE Score: 2.16186

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  186 grams
Birth Weight [3]  10.1 grams
Female Weight [5]  175 grams
Male Weight [5]  195 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  11.4 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical grasslands
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical grasslands
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Diet - Plants [4]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  11
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  1,500,000
Incubation [5]  25 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  8 inches (21 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge)[5]
Echeandia reflexa (reflexed craglily)[5]
Kalmia latifolia (mountain laurel)[5]
Oxalis drummondii (Drummond's woodsorrel)[5]
Pinus cembroides (Pinyon pine)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[7]
Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[7]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[7]
Circus cyaneus (Northern Harrier)[7]
Homo sapiens (man)[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
4Hamish 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
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.
6Jetz 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
7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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
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