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Aratinga pertinax (Brown-throated Parakeet)

Synonyms: Eupsittula pertinax (homotypic); Eupsittula pertinax pertinax; Psittacus pertinax (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown-throated parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax), commonly known as the St Thomas conure or brown-throated conure in aviculture, is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae.
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Infraspecies

Aratinga pertinax aeruginosa (Colombian brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax arubensis (Aruban brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax chrysogenys (Negro River brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax chrysophrys (Guyana brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax griseipecta (Sinu River brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax lehmanni (Lehmann's brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax margaritensis (Margarita brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax ocularis (Panama brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax paraensis (Tapajos brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax pertinax (Brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax surinama (Surinam brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax tortugensis (Tortuga Island brown-throat conure)
Aratinga pertinax venezuelae (Venezuelan brown-throated conure)
Aratinga pertinax xanthogenia (Bonaire brown-throated conure)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.59018
EDGE Score: 1.52392

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  84 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Plants [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  4

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Ficus crassinervia (jaguey blanco)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Haverschmidt, F. and GF Mees. 1994. Birds of Suriname. Vaco, Paramaribo, Surinam
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
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
4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
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