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Icterus pustulatus (Streak-backed Oriole)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The streak-backed oriole (Icterus pustulatus) is a medium-sized species of passerine bird from the icterid family (the same family as many blackbirds, meadowlarks, cowbirds, grackles, and others, including the New World orioles). It is native to Central America and Mexico and is an occasional visitor to the United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Icterus pustulatus

Infraspecies

Icterus pustulatus alticola
Icterus pustulatus dickermani
Icterus pustulatus formosus
Icterus pustulatus graysonii
Icterus pustulatus interior
Icterus pustulatus maximus
Icterus pustulatus microstictus
Icterus pustulatus pustulatus
Icterus pustulatus pustuloides
Icterus pustulatus sclateri
Icterus pustulatus yaegeri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.83131
EDGE Score: 1.34321
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  39 grams
Female Weight [1]  35 grams
Male Weight [1]  43 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  22.9 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,000,000
Incubation [1]  13 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Death Valley National Park II 762125 California, Nevada, United States
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve 5901 California, United States  
Montecristo National Park IV 9237 El Salvador  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Guanacaste lowlands Costa Rica A1, A3
Nicoya Peninsula Costa Rica A1, A3, A4i

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

Prey / Diet

Combretum fruticosum[1]
Erythrina breviflora[1]
Erythrina oliviae[1]
Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Bilberry Cactus)[5]
Pseudobombax ellipticum (shavingbrush tree)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Effectiveness of Dispersal of an Ornithocorous Cactus Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Cactaceae) in a Patchy Environment, Mónica G. Pérez-Villafaña and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, The Open Biology Journal, 2009, 2, 101-113
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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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