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Enicognathus ferrugineus (Austral Parakeet)

Wikipedia Abstract

The austral parakeet, austral conure, or emerald parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineus) is a parrot found on the southern tip of South America – further south than any other parrot – ranging as far north as Temuco. It is a fairly large conure, 35 cm (2 cm more than a monk or quaker parakeet). It is primarily green, lightly barred, with some dull red on the forehead and lores, belly, and upper tail, with the northern part of the range displaying less red. There are two recognized subspecies, Enicognathus ferrugineus ferrugineus and Enicognathus ferrugineus minor.
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Infraspecies

Enicognathus ferrugineus ferrugineus (Austral conure)
Enicognathus ferrugineus minor (North Australian conure)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.6165
EDGE Score: 2.03032
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  200 grams
Birth Weight [2]  7 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Plants [3]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [4]  6
Incubation [2]  9 months 2 days
Snout to Vent Length [2]  14 inches (35 cm)
Wing Span [5]  21 inches (.53 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Prey / Diet

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Patagioenas araucana (Chilean Pigeon)1

Predators

Lycalopex fulvipes (Darwin's Fox)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?, Hernán L. Cofre, Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Pablo A. Marquet, Diversity and Distributions, 13: 203–212 (2007)
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 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
♦ 5On the allometry of wings, Enrique Morgado, Bruno Günther and Urcesino Gonzalez, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 71-79, 1987
♦ 6Araucaria araucana and the Austral parakeet: pre-dispersal seed predation on a masting species, JOHN D. SHEPHERD, REBECCA S. DITGEN & JAVIER SANGUINETTI, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 81: 395-401, 2008
♦ 7Habitat and Diet of Darwin's Fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) on the Chilean Mainland, Fabian M. Jaksić, Jaime E. Jiménez, Rodrigo G. Medel, Pablo A. Marquet, Journal of Mammalogy, 71(2):246-248, 1990
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