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Geothlypis poliocephala (Gray-crowned Yellowthroat)

Synonyms: Chamaethlypis poliocephala
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey-crowned yellowthroat (Geothlypis poliocephala) is a species of bird in the Parulidae family.It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Geothlypis poliocephala

Infraspecies

Geothlypis poliocephala caninucha
Geothlypis poliocephala icterotis
Geothlypis poliocephala palpebralis
Geothlypis poliocephala poliocephala
Geothlypis poliocephala pontilis
Geothlypis poliocephala ralphi
Geothlypis poliocephala ridgwayi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.05546
EDGE Score: 1.62047
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.6 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)
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  100 %
Forages - Understory [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Incubation [4]  13 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Howell, TR 1972. Birds of the lowland pine savanna of northeastern Nicaragua Condor 74: 316-340
♦ 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
♦ 4W. Andrew Cox and Thomas E Martin. (2009) Breeding Biology of the Three-Striped Warbler in Venezuela: a Contrast between Tropical and Temperate Parulids The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 121:4, 667-678
♦ 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
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