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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.
View Wikipedia Record: Aratinga pertinax

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
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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