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Chaetura vauxi (Vaux's Swift)

Synonyms: Cypcelus vauxi
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Vaux's swift (Chaetura vauxi) is a small swift native to North America and northern South America. It was named for the American scientist William Sansom Vaux.
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Infraspecies

Chaetura vauxi aphanes
Chaetura vauxi gaumeri
Chaetura vauxi ochropygia
Chaetura vauxi richmondi
Chaetura vauxi tamaulipensis
Chaetura vauxi vauxi
Chaetura vauxi warneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.2577
EDGE Score: 2.32803
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17 grams
Birth Weight [1]  2 grams
Female Weight [4]  22 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican highland forests, Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Pacific Lowlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Generalist
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [4]  28 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  700,000
Incubation [1]  19 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [7]  5 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Snout to Vent Length [4]  5 inches (13 cm)
Wing Span [8]  10 inches (.254 m)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8The turning- and linear-maneuvering performance of birds: the cost of efficiency for coursing insectivores, Douglas R. Warrick, Can. J. Zool. 76: 1063–1079 (1998)
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