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Arenaria interpres (Ruddy Turnstone)

Synonyms: Strepsilas interpres; Tringa interpres (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres) is a small wading bird, one of two species of turnstone in the genus Arenaria. The scientific name is from Latin. The genus name arenaria derives from arenarius, "inhabiting sand, from arena, "sand". The specific interpres means "messenger"; when visiting Gotland in 1741, Linnaeus thought that the Swedish word Tolk "interpreter" applied to this species, but in the local dialect the word means "legs" and is used for the redshank.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.7736
EDGE Score: 2.93245

Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  4
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  20 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  600,000
Incubation [4]  22 days
Mating Display [8]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Migration [1]  Intercontinental
Speed [9]  33.33 MPH (14.9 m/s)
Water Biome [1]  Coastal
Wing Span [9]  19 inches (.47 m)
Adult Weight [2]  110 grams
Birth Weight [4]  11 grams
Breeding Habitat [3]  Arctic tundra, Arctic coastal
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread Coastal
Wintering Habitat [3]  Beaches and estuaries, Rocky intertidal
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  80 %
Diet - Plants [5]  20 %
Forages - Ground [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  2 years
Male Maturity [4]  2 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Corophium volutator (mud shrimp)[10]
Leptuca uruguayensis[11]
Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crab)[12]
Littorina littorea (Common periwinkle)[10]
Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)[10]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Himasthla elongata[10]
Levinseniella brachysoma[10]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
5Hamish 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
6Nathan 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
7Jetz 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
8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
9Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
10Jorrit 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.
11"Predation on the southwestern Atlantic fiddler crab (Uca uruguayensis) by migratory shorebirds (Pluvialis dominica, P. squatarola, Arenaria interpres, and Numenius phaeopus)", Oscar O. Iribarne, Mariano M. Martinez, Estuaries March 1999, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp 47-54
12del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
13Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
14Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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