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Psaltriparus minimus (Bushtit; American Bushtit)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The American bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus) is the only species in the family Aegithalidae found in the New World, and the only member of the genus Psaltriparus. In North America, it is referred to simply as "bushtit".
View Wikipedia Record: Psaltriparus minimus

Infraspecies

Psaltriparus minimus californicus
Psaltriparus minimus dimorphicus
Psaltriparus minimus grindae
Psaltriparus minimus iulus
Psaltriparus minimus melanotis
Psaltriparus minimus melanurus
Psaltriparus minimus minimus
Psaltriparus minimus personatus
Psaltriparus minimus plumbeus
Psaltriparus minimus saturatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.6682
EDGE Score: 2.5391
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  0.7 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests, Pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Plants [4]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  10 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year
Clutch Size [5]  6
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  3,200,000
Incubation [1]  12 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  8 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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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

Prey / Diet

Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree)[6]
Baccharis pilularis (Coyote Brush)[6]
Hemiberlesia rapax (greedy scale)[6]
Saissetia miranda (mexican black scale)[6]
Toxicodendron diversilobum (pacific poisonoak)[6]

Predators

Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Baylisascaris procyonis (raccoon roundworm)[7]
Molothrus ater (Brown-headed Cowbird)[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 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
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Gibson, 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