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Ammodramus bairdii (Baird's Sparrow)

Synonyms: Passerculus bairdii (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Baird's sparrow (Ammodramus bairdii) is a species of North American birds in the family Emberizidae of order Passeriformes. It is a migratory bird native the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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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: 5.23173
EDGE Score: 1.82965
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18.5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  2.2 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands
Wintering Geography [2]  Chihuahuan Grasslands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Chihuahuan grasslands
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  90 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  13 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  3,200,000
Incubation [5]  11 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display (mostly)
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Migration [7]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Phleum pratense (common timothy)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Circus cyaneus (Northern Harrier)[5]
Falco columbarius (Merlin)[5]
Ictidomys tridecemlineatus (thirteen-lined ground squirrel)[5]
Mephitis mephitis (Striped Skunk)[5]
Urocitellus richardsonii (Richardson's ground squirrel)[5]

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 5SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR BAIRD’S SPARROW (AMMODRAMUS BAIRDII) IN WYOMING, ROBERT LUCE AND DOUG KEINATH, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, December 2003
♦ 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
♦ 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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