Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Icteridae > Agelaius > Agelaius humeralisAgelaius humeralis (Tawny-shouldered Blackbird)The tawny-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius humeralis) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. It is a vagrant in the United States. Measuring 20 cm (7.9 in) long, this highly social species is entirely black save for the namesake brown-orange patch at the shoulder. The patch may not be visible when the wings are folded. Two subspecies are described: \n* A. h. humeralis – (Vigors, 1827): nominate, found in Cuba and northwestern Haiti \n* A. h. scopulus – Garrido, 1970: found on Cayo Cantiles (east of Isle of Pines off southwestern Cuba) |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.21403 EDGE Score: 1.43842 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 36 grams | | Female Weight [3] | 34 grams | | Male Weight [3] | 38 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [3] | 11.8 % |  | | Diet [2] | Nectarivore, Granivore | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Alejandro de Humboldt |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Alturas de Banao |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Cayo Sabinal, Ballenatos y Manglares de la Bahía de Nuevitas |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i |
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Cayos Romano-Cruz-Megano Grande |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Delta del Cauto |
Cuba |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Delta del Mayarí |
Cuba |
A1, A3, B4i |
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Gibara |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Gran Piedra: Pico Mogote |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Mensura |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Limones-Tuabaquey |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Río Máximo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B4i |
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Siboney: Juticí |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4iv |
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Sierra del Chorrillo |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Topes de Collantes |
Cuba |
A1, A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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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. |
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 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 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Whittingham, L. A., A. Kirkconnell and L. M. Ratcliffe. 1996. Breeding behavior, social organization and morphology of Red-shouldered (Agelaius assimilis) and Tawny-shouldered (A. humeralis) blackbirds The Condor 98: 832-836 ♦ 4Jetz 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 |
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
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