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Sturnella magna (Eastern Meadowlark)

Synonyms: Alauda magna
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Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a medium-sized icterid bird, very similar in appearance to the western meadowlark. It occurs from eastern North America to South America, where it is also most widespread in the east.
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Infraspecies

Sturnella magna alticola
Sturnella magna argutula
Sturnella magna auropectoralis
Sturnella magna griscomi
Sturnella magna hippocrepis
Sturnella magna hoopesi
Sturnella magna inexpectata
Sturnella magna inexspectata
Sturnella magna lilianae
Sturnella magna magna
Sturnella magna meridionalis
Sturnella magna mexicana
Sturnella magna monticola
Sturnella magna paralios
Sturnella magna praticola
Sturnella magna quinta
Sturnella magna saundersi
Sturnella magna subulata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.90011
EDGE Score: 1.77497
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  91 grams
Birth Weight [3]  5 grams
Female Weight [5]  76 grams
Male Weight [5]  102 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  34.2 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  11 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  37,000,000
Incubation [3]  13 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  13 years
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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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. No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[7]
Buteo brachyurus (Short-tailed Hawk)[7]
Glaucidium brasilianum (Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl)[7]
Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum (cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl)[8]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Diplotriaena agelaius <Unverified Name>[9]
Mediorhynchus grandis[9]

Range Map

External References

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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.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Hartman, FA 1955. Heart weight in birds. Condor 57: 221-238
♦ 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
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl: Taxonomy, Distribution, and Natural History, Jean-Luc E. Cartron, W. Scott Richardson, Glenn A. Proudfoot, USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-43. 2000
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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