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Falcipennis canadensis (Spruce Grouse)

Synonyms: Canachites canadensis; Dendragapus canadensis; Dendrogapus canadensis; Tetrao canadensis
Language: French

Wikipedia Abstract

The spruce grouse, Canada grouse, or Trail Chicken (Falcipennis canadensis) is a medium-sized grouse closely associated with the coniferous boreal forests or taiga of North America. It is one of the most arboreal grouse, fairly well adapted to perching and moving about in trees. When approached by a predator, it relies on camouflage and immobility to an amazing degree, for example letting people come to within a few feet before finally taking flight, a behavior that has earned it the nickname "fool's hen".
View Wikipedia Record: Falcipennis canadensis

Infraspecies

Falcipennis canadensis atratus
Falcipennis canadensis canace
Falcipennis canadensis canadensis
Falcipennis canadensis franklinii (Franklin’s Grouse) (Attributes)
Falcipennis canadensis isleibi
Falcipennis canadensis osgoodi
Falcipennis canadensis torridus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.77979
EDGE Score: 1.91395
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.036 lbs (470 g)
Birth Weight [3]  15 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Boreal forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Boreal forests
Diet [4]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Plants [4]  90 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  1 year
Male Maturity [3]  1 year
Clutch Size [5]  6
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  11,000,000
Incubation [3]  20 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground display
Mating System [6]  Promiscuity
Maximum Longevity [3]  13 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  16 inches (41 cm)

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 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
♦ 7Jorrit 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.
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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