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Calamospiza melanocorys (Lark Bunting)

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.03922
EDGE Score: 1.79827
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  36 grams
Birth Weight [3]  3 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands
Wintering Geography [2]  Chihuahuan Grasslands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Chihuahuan grasslands, Desert scrub, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  60 %
Forages - Aerial [4]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  10 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  50 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year
Clutch Size [5]  5
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  10,000,000
Incubation [3]  12 days
Mating Display [6]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [6]  Monogamy (mostly)
Maximum Longevity [3]  4 years
Migration [7]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Emblem of

Colorado

Prey / Diet

Avena sativa (oats)[8]
Eriocoma hymenoides (Indian ricegrass)[8]
Helianthus annuus (Sunflower)[8]
Reynoutria japonica (Japanese knotweed)[8]
Triticum aestivum (common wheat)[8]

Predators

Buteo regalis (Ferruginous Hawk)[8]
Buteo swainsoni (Swainson's Hawk)[8]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[8]

Range Map

External References

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Audio

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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.
♦ 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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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