Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cardinalidae > Piranga > Piranga flava

Piranga flava (Red Tanager; Lowland Hepatic-tanager)

Synonyms: Saltator spec
Language: Spanish

Infraspecies

Piranga flava flava
Piranga flava macconnelli
Piranga flava rosacea
Piranga flava saira

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.86183
EDGE Score: 2.06202
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  42 grams
Birth Weight [3]  3.9 grams
Female Weight [1]  39 grams
Male Weight [1]  45 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.4 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Mexican Highlands
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Forages - Canopy [4]  60 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  30 %
Forages - Understory [4]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  20,000,000
Mating System [3]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus thonningii (Chinese banyan)[6]
Struthanthus concinnus[7]
Struthanthus oerstedii[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

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.
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 6"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 7Bird frugivory on Struthanthus concinnus (Loranthaceae) in Southeastern Brazil, Tadeu J. Guerra and Miguel Ângelo Marini, Ararajuba 10 (2): 187-192 (2002)
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
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