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Colaptes pitius (Chilean Flicker)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chilean flicker (Colaptes pitius) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Argentina and Chile.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.72471
EDGE Score: 1.55281
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  125 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  5
Snout to Vent Length [4]  12 inches (30 cm)
Wing Span [5]  19 inches (.48 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Magellanic subpolar forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Patagonian steppe Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Valdivian temperate forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Prey / Diet

Drimys winteri (Winter's bark)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Elaenia albiceps (White-crested Elaenia)1
Patagioenas araucana (Chilean Pigeon)1
Phrygilus patagonicus (Patagonian Sierra Finch)1
Sicalis luteola (Grassland Yellow-Finch)1
Turdus falcklandii (Austral Thrush)1

Predators

Buteo ventralis (Rufous-tailed Hawk)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?, Hernán L. Cofre, Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Pablo A. Marquet, Diversity and Distributions, 13: 203–212 (2007)
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5On the allometry of wings, Enrique Morgado, Bruno Günther and Urcesino Gonzalez, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 71-79, 1987
♦ 6Plant/frugivore interactions in South American temperate forests, JUAN J. ARMESTO, RICARDO ROZZI, PAMELA MIRANDA and CARLOS SABAG, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 321-336, 1987
♦ 7del 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
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