Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Melanerpes > Melanerpes radiolatusMelanerpes radiolatus (Jamaican Woodpecker)The Jamaican woodpecker (Melanerpes radiolatus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Jamaica.It is known locally simply as "woodpecker."Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.60245 EDGE Score: 1.7232 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 108 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 80 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 20 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 | | Incubation [3] | 13 days | | Snout to Vent Length [5] | 10 inches (25 cm) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Jamaican dry forests |
Jamaica |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Jamaican moist forests |
Jamaica |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Black River Great Morass |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Blue Mountains |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Bluefields |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Catadupa |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Cockpit Country |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Dolphin Head |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Hellshire Hills |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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John Crow Mountains |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Litchfield Mountain: Matheson's Run |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Diablo |
Jamaica |
A1, A2 |
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Negril |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Portland Ridge and Bight |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Yallahs |
Jamaica |
A1, A2, B4i |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Cruz, A. 1974. Feeding assemblages of Jamaican birds. Condor 76: 104-108 ♦ 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 ♦ 5Nathan 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 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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