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Andigena laminirostris (Plate-billed Mountain Toucan)

Wikipedia Abstract

Andean Toucan is endemic to Ecuador and Colombia. Andigena laminirostris live mainly in the cloud forest. This is one of the 5 species Andigena genera, all of them are known like Toucan Mountain. Other names that they have are hill-toucan, Toucan montagnard (French), Leistenschnabel tukN (German), and Tucan piquiplano (Spanish). In Ecuador, you can find some different colorations of the species, and it is distributed north until western Napo, and to the south on the northwestern side of Morona Santiago.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.80189
EDGE Score: 2.45133
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  311 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  90 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  16 days
Snout to Vent Length [5]  19 inches (49 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northwestern Andean montane forests Colombia, Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cotacahi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve 505133 Ecuador  
La Reserva de la Planada   Colombia      
Los Illinizas Ecological Reserve 370411 Ecuador  

Important Bird Areas

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
♦ 1Short, LL, and JFM Horne. 2001. Toucans, barbets, and honeyguides. Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 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
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