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Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)

Synonyms: Oriolus phoeniceus
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica. It may winter as far north as Pennsylvania and British Columbia, but northern populations are generally migratory, moving south to Mexico and the southern United States. Claims have been made that it is the most abundant living land bird in North America, as bird-counting censuses of wintering red-winged blackbirds sometimes show that loose flocks can number in an excess of a million birds per flock and the full number of breeding pairs across North a
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Infraspecies

Agelaius phoeniceus aciculatus
Agelaius phoeniceus arctolegus
Agelaius phoeniceus arthuralleni
Agelaius phoeniceus brevirostris
Agelaius phoeniceus bryanti
Agelaius phoeniceus californicus
Agelaius phoeniceus caurinus
Agelaius phoeniceus floridanus
Agelaius phoeniceus fortis
Agelaius phoeniceus grinnelli
Agelaius phoeniceus gubernator
Agelaius phoeniceus littoralis
Agelaius phoeniceus mailliardorum
Agelaius phoeniceus matudae
Agelaius phoeniceus mearnsi
Agelaius phoeniceus megapotamus
Agelaius phoeniceus nelsoni
Agelaius phoeniceus neutralis
Agelaius phoeniceus nevadensis
Agelaius phoeniceus nyaritensis
Agelaius phoeniceus pallidulus
Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus
Agelaius phoeniceus richmondi
Agelaius phoeniceus sonoriensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.77743
EDGE Score: 1.75396
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Attributes

Clutch Size [6]  3
Clutches / Year [4]  2
Fledging [2]  16 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  160,000,000
Incubation [4]  12 days
Mating Display [7]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [7]  Polygyny
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Water Biome [1]  Brackish Water
Adult Weight [2]  52 grams
Birth Weight [4]  3 grams
Female Weight [2]  40 grams
Male Weight [2]  64 grams
Weight Dimorphism [2]  60 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Generalist, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [3]  Generalist, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  50 %
Forages - Understory [5]  10 %
Forages - Ground [5]  90 %
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
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

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♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 8Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10Mustela frenata, Steven R. Sheffield and Howard H. Thomas, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 570, pp. 1-9 (1997)
♦ 11Gibson, 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