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Aratinga wagleri (Scarlet-fronted Parakeet)

Synonyms: Psittacara wagleri (homotypic); Psittacara wagleri frontatus; Psittacara wagleri minor; Psittacara wagleri wagleri

Wikipedia Abstract

The scarlet-fronted parakeet (Psittacara wagleri), also known as the scarlet-fronted conure or Wagler's conure, is a long-tailed South American species of parrot.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and especially high-altitude shrubland and forest; it is also known to visit heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Aratinga wagleri frontata (Cordilleran Parakeet)
Aratinga wagleri minor (Southern red-fronted conure)
Aratinga wagleri transilis (Northern red-fronted conure)
Aratinga wagleri wagleri (Red-fronted conure)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.53117
EDGE Score: 1.51098
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  194 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parque Nacional Henri Pittier National Park 218030 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Yacambu National Park II 43025 Venezuela  
Reserva del Noroeste Biosphere Reserve 571807 Peru  
Reserva Natural Tambito   Colombia      
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

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

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1PARROT CLAYLICKS: DISTRIBUTION, PATTERNS OF USE AND ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES FROM A PARROT ASSEMBLAGE IN SOUTHEASTERN PERU, ALAN TRISTRAM KENNETH LEE, dissertation for DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Manchester Metropolitan University, November 2010
♦ 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
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