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Veniliornis dignus (Yellow-vented Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Chloronerpes dignus; Dryobates dignus

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-vented woodpecker (Veniliornis dignus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Infraspecies

Veniliornis dignus baezae
Veniliornis dignus dignus
Veniliornis dignus valdizani

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.83446
EDGE Score: 1.34403
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  38 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  60 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve VI 921676 Ecuador  
La Reserva de la Planada   Colombia      
Otishi National Park 760925 Peru  
Podocarpus National Park II 364096 Ecuador  
Reserva Natural Tambito   Colombia      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1MILLER, AH 1963. Seasonal activity and ecology of the avifauna of an American equatorial cloud forest. Univ. California Publ. Zool., 66: 1-78
♦ 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
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