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Cistothorus platensis (Sedge Wren; Grass Wren)

Synonyms: Sylvia platensis (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Infraspecies

Cistothorus platensis aequatorialis
Cistothorus platensis alticola
Cistothorus platensis elegans
Cistothorus platensis falklandicus
Cistothorus platensis graberi
Cistothorus platensis graminicola
Cistothorus platensis hornensis
Cistothorus platensis jalapensis
Cistothorus platensis lucidus
Cistothorus platensis minimus
Cistothorus platensis platensis
Cistothorus platensis polyglottus
Cistothorus platensis potosinus
Cistothorus platensis russelli
Cistothorus platensis stellaris (Sedge Wren) (Attributes)
Cistothorus platensis tinnulus
Cistothorus platensis tucumanus
Cistothorus platensis warneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.04188
EDGE Score: 2.08466
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1.4 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Coastal saltmarshes, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Understory [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  7
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  19,000,000
Incubation [5]  14 days
Mating System [3]  Polygyny
Migration [7]  Intracontinental

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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
♦ 5New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
♦ 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
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
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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