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Chloroceryle americana (Green Kingfisher)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana) is a resident breeding bird which occurs from southern Texas in the United States south through Central and South America to central Argentina. This small kingfisher breeds by streams in forests or mangroves. The nest is in a horizontal tunnel up to a metre long made in a river bank. The female lays three, sometimes four, eggs. Green kingfishers are often seen perched on a low shaded branch close to water before plunging in head first after their fish prey. They also eat aquatic insects. These birds often give a pebbly rattling call.
View Wikipedia Record: Chloroceryle americana

Infraspecies

Chloroceryle americana americana
Chloroceryle americana cabanisii
Chloroceryle americana hachisukai
Chloroceryle americana mathewsii
Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 12.3652
EDGE Score: 2.59266
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  32 grams
Birth Weight [3]  4.3 grams
Female Weight [1]  34 grams
Male Weight [1]  30 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  13.3 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Wetlands
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Wetlands
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  40 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  10 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  70 %
Clutch Size [5]  5
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Egg Length [1]  0.945 inches (24 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.748 inches (19 mm)
Fledging [1]  26 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  20,000,000
Incubation [1]  20 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [6]  5 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Penaeus aztecus (brown shrimp)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chloroceryle amazona (Amazon Kingfisher)1
Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ancyracanthopsis coronata <Unverified Name>[8]
Uvulifer weberi <Unverified Name>[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 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
♦ 6de 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
♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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