World Species : Pheucticus chrysopeplus (Yellow Grosbeak; Mexican Yellow Grosbeak)

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Pheucticus chrysopeplus (Yellow Grosbeak; Mexican Yellow Grosbeak)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Mexican yellow grosbeak (or simply yellow grosbeak), Pheucticus chrysopeplus, is a medium-sized seed-eating bird in the same family as the northern cardinal, "tropical" or "New World" buntings, and "cardinal-grosbeaks" or "New World" grosbeaks. It is considerably bigger than its North American congeners, the black-headed grosbeak and the rose-breasted grosbeak, being about 21.5–24 cm (8.5–9.4 in) long and weighing on average 62 g (2.2 oz). The head is "massive" (Sibley 2000), and the gray-black bill is even bigger in proportion to the head than those of its northern relatives.

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Infraspecies

Pheucticus chrysopeplus aurantiacus
Pheucticus chrysopeplus chrysopeplus
Pheucticus chrysopeplus dilutus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.45503

EDGE Score: 1.86486

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	78 grams
Female Weight ^[1]	78 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Tropical dry forests
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Tropical dry forests

Forages - Canopy ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	40 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	30 %

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Balsas dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Chiapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Jalisco dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests	Mexico, United States	Nearctic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sinaloan dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

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

Prey / Diet

Erythrina oliviae	^[4]
Ficus reflexa reflexa	^[4]
Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Bilberry Cactus)	^[5]
Recchia mexicana	^[4]
Trichostigma octandrum (hoopvine)	^[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

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External References

Citations

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
♦ 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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