World Species : Fulica caribaea (Caribbean Coot)

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Fulica caribaea (Caribbean Coot)

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 9.73376

EDGE Score: 3.06654

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Diet ^[1]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[1]	20 %
Diet - Plants ^[1]	40 %
Diet - Seeds ^[1]	40 %
Forages - Water Surface ^[1]	50 %
Forages - Underwater ^[1]	50 %

Clutch Size ^[2]	5

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves	Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Mangroves
Caribbean shrublands	France, United Kingdom, Dominica, St. Lucia, Netherlands	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Enriquillo wetlands	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Hispaniolan dry forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Hispaniolan moist forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Hispaniolan pine forests	Haiti, Dominican Republic	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
La Costa xeric shrublands	Venezuela	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Lara-Falcón dry forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Lesser Antillean dry forests	Grenada, St. Lucia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Maracaibo dry forests	Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Puerto Rican dry forests	United States	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Puerto Rican moist forests	United States	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Trinidad and Tobago moist forests	Trinidad and Tobago	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location	Species	Website	Climate	Land Use
Morrocoy National Park		63672	Venezuela
Virgin Islands Biosphere Reserve		15148	Virgin Islands, United States

Important Bird Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Caribbean Islands	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S.	No

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
♦ ²Jetz 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

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