World Species : Laterallus ruber (Ruddy Crake)

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Laterallus ruber (Ruddy Crake)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The ruddy crake (Laterallus ruber) is a bird in the rail family, Rallidae.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 7.16851

EDGE Score: 2.10029

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	44 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Freshwater marshes

Clutch Size ^[3]	4
Maximum Longevity ^[4]	9 years

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Belizean pine forests	Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Central American Atlantic moist forests	Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American dry forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Chiapas Depression dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Miskito pine forests	Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Pantanos de Centla	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz moist forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

Name	Location	IBA Criteria
Belize Coastal and near shore islands	Belize	A1, A2, A3, A4i
Belize Off-shore and Barrier Islands	Belize	A1, A2, A4i, A4ii
Crooked Tree and associated wetlands	Belize	A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii
Northeastern Belize	Belize	A1, A2, A3
Rio Bravo CMA Gallon Jug Estate	Belize	A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Howell, TR 1972. Birds of the lowland pine savanna of northeastern Nicaragua Condor 74: 316-340
♦ ²Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ ³Jetz 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
♦ ⁴Nathan 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

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