World Species : Tyrannus couchii (Couch's Kingbird)

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Tyrannus couchii (Couch's Kingbird)

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Synonyms: Tyrannus melancholicus chloronotus; Tyrannus melancholicus couchi

Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Couch's kingbird (Tyrannus couchii) is a passerine tyrant flycatcher of the kingbird genus. It is found from southern Texas along the Gulf Coast to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Belize and northern Guatemala. It is also found in the lower stretches of the Rio Grande river valley, locally named Rio Grande Valley. The name of this bird commemorates the soldier and naturalist Darius N. Couch.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.02729

EDGE Score: 1.39309

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	39 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical dry forests

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[3]	20 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	80 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	100 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	4
Global Population (2017 est.) ^[2]	2,000,000

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Belizean pine forests	Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Oaxacan montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanos de Centla	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Petén-Veracruz moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra de los Tuxtlas	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Tamaulipan matorral	Mexico	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Tamaulipan mezquital	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Veracruz dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz moist forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Veracruz montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Gulf Coastal grasslands	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Yucatán dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Yucatán moist forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Belize	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ ⁶"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572

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