World Species : Pyrrhura melanura (Maroon-tailed Parakeet)

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Pyrrhura melanura (Maroon-tailed Parakeet)

Contents

Infraspecies

Pyrrhura melanura berlepschi (Maroon-tailed conure)
Pyrrhura melanura chapmani
Pyrrhura melanura melanura (Maroon-tailed conure) (Attributes)
Pyrrhura melanura pacifica (Pacific maroon-tailed conure)
Pyrrhura melanura souancei (Meta maroon-tailed conure)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 1.79577

EDGE Score: 1.02811

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	68 grams

Diet ^[2]	Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	80 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Canopy ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	30 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	4

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena Valley dry forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Ecuador moist forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Area		19768430	Amazonas, Brazil
Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve	VI	921676	Ecuador
Jaú National Park	II	5890355	Amazonas, Brazil
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve State Sustainable Development Reserve	VI	3260792	Amazonas, Brazil
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve		4156313	Ecuador

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

Trema micrantha (Jamaican nettletree)

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

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
♦ 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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

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