Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Emberizidae > Melozone > Melozone abertiMelozone aberti (Abert's Towhee)Synonyms: Kieneria aberti; Pipilo aberti Language: Spanish The Abert's towhee (Melozone aberti) is a bird of the family Emberizidae, native to a small range in southwestern North America, generally the lower Colorado River and Gila River watersheds, nearly endemic to Arizona, but also present in small parts of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Sonora in Mexico. The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897). |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.33219 EDGE Score: 1.46607 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 46 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 4 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Desert scrub, Desert riparian | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Desert scrub, Desert riparian | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 80 % | | Diet - Seeds [4] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [4] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [4] | 70 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 4 | | Clutches / Year [3] | 2 | | Fledging [1] | 13 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 840,000 | | Incubation [3] | 14 days | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 9 years | | | Female Maturity [3] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [3] | 1 year |
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Chihuahuan desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Mojave desert |
United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sonoran desert |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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 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. ♦ 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 ♦ 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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