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Leucosticte atrata (Black Rosy-Finch; Black Rosy Finch)

Wikipedia Abstract

The black rosy finch, or black rosy-finch, (Leucosticte atrata) is a species of passerine bird in the family Fringillidae native to alpine areas above treeline, of the western United States.
View Wikipedia Record: Leucosticte atrata

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Leucosticte atrata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
7
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.45455
EDGE Score: 1.23969
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Alpine tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Western U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests, Alpine tundra
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  5
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [1]  19 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  20,000
Incubation [4]  13 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  6 years
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Grand Teton National Park II 231724 Wyoming, United States
Great Basin National Park II 77367 Nevada, United States
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve II 2196863 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States

Prey / Diet

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus[6]

Predators

Falco mexicanus (Prairie Falcon)[6]

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.
♦ 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
♦ 4de 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
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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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