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Melozone fusca (Canyon Towhee)

Synonyms: Kieneria fusca; Pipilo fuscus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The canyon towhee (Melozone fusca) is a bird of the family Emberizidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Melozone fusca

Infraspecies

Melozone fusca campoi
Melozone fusca fusca
Melozone fusca intermedia
Melozone fusca jamesi
Melozone fusca mesata
Melozone fusca mesoleuca
Melozone fusca perpallida
Melozone fusca potosina
Melozone fusca texana
Melozone fusca toroi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.50848
EDGE Score: 1.70629
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  48 grams
Birth Weight [3]  4.6 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [5]  3
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  6,800,000
Incubation [5]  11 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  13 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Carnegiea gigantea (saguaro)[7]
Opuntia robusta var. larreyi (Wheel Cactus)[8]
Opuntia streptacantha var. pachona[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
♦ 7How Important are Columnar Cacti as Sources of Water and Nutrients for Desert Consumers? A Review, B. O. Wolf and C. Martínez del Rio, Isotopes Environ. Health Stud., 2003, Vol. 39(1), pp. 53-67
♦ 8Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals, Mario González-Espinosa and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (eds A. Estrada & T. H. Fleming.), pp. 273–284. Dr W. Junk, Publishers, Dordrecht.
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