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Amphispiza bilineata (Black-throated Sparrow)

Synonyms: Emberiza bilineata (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-throated sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) is a small American sparrow primarily found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is sometimes referred to as the desert sparrow, due to its preferred habitat of arid desert hillsides and scrub. This name usually refers to the desert sparrow of Africa and Asia. It has a loose nest of grass twigs and plant fibers carefully hidden in brush 6–18 inches (15–46 cm) above the ground. Three or four white or pale blue eggs are laid.
View Wikipedia Record: Amphispiza bilineata

Infraspecies

Amphispiza bilineata bangsi
Amphispiza bilineata belvederei
Amphispiza bilineata bilineata
Amphispiza bilineata cana
Amphispiza bilineata deserticola
Amphispiza bilineata grisea
Amphispiza bilineata opuntia
Amphispiza bilineata pacifica
Amphispiza bilineata tortugae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.39961
EDGE Score: 2.34177
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  2 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  50 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  2
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  51,000,000
Incubation [3]  12 days
Mating System [6]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [3]  6 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]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[8]
Canis latrans (Coyote)[8]
Falco sparverius (American Kestrel)[8]
Lynx canadensis (lynx)[8]

Range Map

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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.
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 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
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