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Nothura darwinii (Darwin's Nothura)

Synonyms: Nothura darwini

Wikipedia Abstract

The Darwin's nothura (Nothura darwinii) is a type of tinamou commonly found in high-altitude grassland in the southern Andes in South America.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.0559
EDGE Score: 3.04718

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  247 grams
Birth Weight [1]  15 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  5
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  25 days
Incubation [3]  17 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Erodium cicutarium (redstem)[5]
Paspalum pygmaeum[5]
Picradeniopsis multiflora (manyflower false threadleaf)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
2Hamish 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
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Jetz 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
5THE FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIGESTIVE TRACT MORPHOMETRY OF TWO SYMPATRIC TINAMOUS OF THE HIGH PLATEAU OF THE BOLIVIAN ANDES: THE ORNATE TINAMOU (NOTHOPROCTA ORNATA) AND THE DARWIN’S NOTHURA (NOTHURA DARWINII), Álvaro Garitano-Zavala, Jacint Nadal & Pamela Ávila, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 14: 173–194, 2003
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