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Ammodramus henslowii (Henslow's Sparrow)

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Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) is a passerine bird in the Emberizidae family, which contains buntings, juncos and towhees. It was named by John James Audubon in honor of John Stevens Henslow.
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Infraspecies

Ammodramus henslowii henslowii
Ammodramus henslowii susurrans

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.23138
EDGE Score: 2.52274
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Birth Weight [3]  2 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate grasslands, Temperate eastern forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  10 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  10 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  390,000
Incubation [5]  10 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [8]  7 years
Migration [7]  Intracontinental
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Prey / Diet

Dichanthelium aciculare (needleleaf rosette grass)[9]
Muhlenbergia expansa (cutover muhly)[9]

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
♦ 5New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
♦ 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
♦ 8de 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
♦ 9DiMiceli, Jennifer K., et al. "Seed preferences of wintering Henslow's sparrows/Preferencias de consumo de semillas por parte de Ammodramus henslowii durante el invierno." The Condor 109.3 (2007): 595+. Academic OneFile. Web. 15 July 2014.
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