Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Hesperiphona > Hesperiphona vespertina

Hesperiphona vespertina (Evening Grosbeak)

Synonyms: Coccothraustes vespertinus; Fringilla vespertina (homotypic)
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The evening grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertina or Coccothraustes vespertinus) is a passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae found in North America.
View Wikipedia Record: Hesperiphona vespertina

Infraspecies

Hesperiphona vespertina brooksi
Hesperiphona vespertina montana
Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Hesperiphona vespertina

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.8146
EDGE Score: 2.46934
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  59 grams
Birth Weight [3]  4 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Boreal forests, Temperate western forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Northern U.S./Canada
Wintering Habitat [2]  Forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  10 %
Diet - Plants [4]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [5]  2
Fledging [1]  14 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  3,600,000
Incubation [5]  13 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  17 years
Female Maturity [1]  0 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Japan Japan No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
High Montane Red Spruce - Fir Forest United States (Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New York, New Hampshire); Canada (New Brunswick)

Prey / Diet

Acer negundo (box elder)[7]
Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa pine)[7]
Sorbus aucuparia (Mountain Ash)[7]

Predators

Glaucidium gnoma (Northern Pygmy-Owl)[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5de 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
♦ 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
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8DIETS OF NORTHERN PYGMY-OWLS AND NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWLS IN WEST-CENTRAL MONTANA, DENVER W. HOLT AND LESLIE A. LEROUX, Wilson Bull., 108(1), 1996, pp. 123-128
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