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Acanthis hornemanni (Hoary Redpoll; Arctic Redpoll)

Synonyms: Acanthis flammea hornemanni (homotypic); Carduelis hornemanni; Linota hornemanni (homotypic)
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The Arctic redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni), known in North America as the hoary redpoll, is a bird species in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds in tundra birch forest. It has two subspecies, A. h. hornemanni (Greenland or Hornemann's Arctic redpoll) of Greenland and neighbouring parts of Canada, and A. h. exilipes (Coues's Arctic redpoll), which breeds in the tundra of northern North America and Eurasia. Many birds remain in the far north; some birds migrate short distances south in winter, sometimes travelling with common redpolls.
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Infraspecies

Acanthis hornemanni exilipes
Acanthis hornemanni hornemanni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.32478
EDGE Score: 1.46436
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Arctic tundra, Alpine tundra
Wintering Geography [2]  Northern U.S./Canada
Wintering Habitat [2]  Generalist
Diet [4]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [4]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  26,000,000
Incubation [3]  12 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  7 years
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Kevo Finland A3, B2, B3, C2, C6
Taavavuoma Sweden A3, B2, C6
Varangerfjord Norway A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus garei[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 7International Flea Database
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