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Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Yellow-headed Blackbird)

Synonyms: Icterus xanthocephalus (homotypic)
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Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) is a medium-sized blackbird, and the only member of the genus Xanthocephalus. Adults have a pointed bill. The adult male is mainly black with a yellow head and breast; they have a white wing patch sometimes only visible in flight. The adult female is mainly brown with a dull yellow throat and breast. Both genders resemble the respective genders of the smaller yellow-hooded blackbird of South America. This bird's song resembles the grating of a rusty hinge.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.5971
EDGE Score: 2.45075
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  4
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [2]  17 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  15,000,000
Incubation [4]  12 days
Mating System [7]  Polygyny
Maximum Longevity [4]  18 years
Migration [1]  Intracontinental
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  64 grams
Birth Weight [4]  3 grams
Female Weight [6]  49 grams
Male Weight [2]  80 grams
Weight Dimorphism [2]  63.3 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Freshwater marshes, Saline lakes
Wintering Geography [3]  Western U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [3]  Generalist, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  100 %
Forages - Understory [5]  10 %
Forages - Ground [5]  90 %
Female Maturity [4]  9 months 19 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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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

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Citations

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♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Nathan 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
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Hamish 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
♦ 6Dunning, JB, Jr. 1984. Body weights of 686 species of North American birds. Western Bird Banding Association Monograph Number 1. Eldon, Cave Creek, Arizona, USA
♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
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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