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Callipepla douglasii (Elegant Quail)

Synonyms: Lophortyx douglasii; Lophortyx douglasii douglasii; Ortyx douglasii (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The elegant quail (Callipepla douglasii) is a species of New World quail endemic to Pacific-slope thorn forest of north-western Mexico, from southern Sonora to Nayarit. These are common, mainly ground-dwelling birds, and the IUCN has rated them as being a "species of least concern".
View Wikipedia Record: Callipepla douglasii

Infraspecies

Callipepla douglasii bensoni (Elegant quail)
Callipepla douglasii douglasii (Elegant quail)
Callipepla douglasii impedita
Callipepla douglasii languens
Callipepla douglasii teres
Callipepla douglasii vanderbilti

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.24229
EDGE Score: 1.97994
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  172 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Agricultural
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  40 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [5]  10
Incubation [4]  22 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (23 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Jalisco dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Sinaloan dry forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

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.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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