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Icterus spurius (Orchard Oriole)

Synonyms: Oriolus spurius
Language: French; Spanish

Infraspecies

Icterus spurius fuertesi (Fuertes's Oriole) (Attributes)
Icterus spurius phillipsi
Icterus spurius spurius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.07891
EDGE Score: 1.6251
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  4
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [2]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  12,000,000
Incubation [6]  13 days
Mating System [4]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [6]  11 years
Migration [1]  Intercontinental
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Adult Weight [2]  20 grams
Birth Weight [4]  2.2 grams
Breeding Habitat [3]  Temperate eastern forests
Wintering Geography [3]  Pacific Lowlands
Wintering Habitat [3]  Tropical dry forests, Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [5]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [5]  30 %
Diet - Plants [5]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [5]  20 %
Forages - Understory [5]  50 %
Forages - Ground [5]  30 %
Female Maturity [6]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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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
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Combretum fruticosum[8]
Erythrina breviflora[8]
Erythrina fusca (bucayo)[8]
Ficus cotinifolia[9]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Falco femoralis (Aplomado Falcon)[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Audio

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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.
♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 6de 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
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 10THE DIET OF THE APLOMADO FALCON (FALCO FEMORALIS) IN EASTERN MEXICO, DEAN P. HECTOR, The Condor 87:336-342
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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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