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Sphyrapicus ruber (Red-breasted Sapsucker)

Synonyms: Picus ruber (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber), is a medium-sized woodpecker of the forests of the west coast of North America.
View Wikipedia Record: Sphyrapicus ruber

Infraspecies

Sphyrapicus ruber daggetti (Red-breasted Sapsucker) (Attributes)
Sphyrapicus ruber ruber (Red-breasted Sapsucker) (Attributes)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.18726
EDGE Score: 1.6462
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  58 grams
Birth Weight [3]  3.9 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Western U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Plants [4]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  27 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,300,000
Incubation [5]  14 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [8]  4 years 9 months
Migration [7]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [1]  8 inches (20 cm)
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

Prey / Diet

Morella californica (California wax myrtle)[9]
Toxicodendron diversilobum (pacific poisonoak)[9]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dasypsyllus gallinulae perpinnatus[10]

Range Map

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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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz 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
♦ 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
♦ 8de 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
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 10International Flea Database
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