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Setophaga angelae (Elfin-woods Warbler; Elfin Woods Warbler)

Synonyms: Dendroica angelae

Wikipedia Abstract

The elfin woods warbler (Setophaga angelae) is a bird endemic to Puerto Rico where it is a local and uncommon species. Discovered in 1968 and described in 1972, it is the most recently described species of New World warbler (Parulidae family). The species name, angelae, is a tribute to Angela Kepler, one of its discoverers. An insectivore, it feeds by gleaning small insects off leaves.
View Wikipedia Record: Setophaga angelae

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Setophaga angelae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
39
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.47671
EDGE Score: 3.25451
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.4 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Puerto Rican dry forests United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Puerto Rican moist forests United States Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Caribbean National Forest 27831 Puerto Rico, United States    
El Yunque National Forest   Puerto Rico, United States    
Guilarte Commonwealth Forest 3504 Puerto Rico, United States    
Luquillo Biosphere Reserve 8617 Puerto Rico, United States  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
El Yunque Puerto Rico (to USA) A1, A2  
Maricao and Susúa Puerto Rico (to USA) A1, A2  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Predators

Accipiter striatus (Sharp-shinned Hawk)[4]
Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)[4]
Buteo platypterus (Broad-winged Hawk)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1ECOLOGY OF THE ELFIN WOODS WARBLER (DENDROICA ANGELAE) Il. FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE ELFIN WOODS WARBLER AND ASSOCIATED INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS IN PUERTO RICO, ALEXANDER CRUZ AND CARLOS A DELANNOY, Caribbean Journal of Science 20: 153-162 (1984)
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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