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Columbina picui (Picui Ground Dove)

Synonyms: Columba picui (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Picui ground dove (Columbina picui) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.1989
EDGE Score: 2.58013

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  48 grams
Female Weight [3]  50 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Clutches / Year [5]  2
Migration [6]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Predators

Circus cinereus (Cinereous Harrier)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Biometry, molt and brood patch parameters of birds in southern Brazil, Leandro Bugoni, Leonardo Vianna Mohr, Adriano Scherer, Márcio Amorin Efe and Scherezino Barbosa Scherer, Ararajuba 10 (1): 85-94
2Hamish 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
3Nathan 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
4Jetz 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
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.
6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
7DIET OF BREEDING CINEREOUS HARRIERS (CIRCUS CINEREUS) IN SOUTHEASTERN BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE, ARGENTINA, María S. Bó, Sandra M. Cicchino, Mariano M. Martínez, J. Raptor Res. 34(3):237-241
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