World Species : Nystalus chacuru (White-eared Puffbird)

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Nystalus chacuru (White-eared Puffbird)

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Synonyms: Bucco chacuru (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-eared puffbird (Nystalus chacuru) is a species of bird in the Bucconidae family, the puffbirds. It is found in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical dry forests, subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and heavily degraded former forest.

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Infraspecies

Nystalus chacuru chacuru
Nystalus chacuru uncirostris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 13.6555

EDGE Score: 2.68481

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	52 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	70 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	33 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	3

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic dry forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Bahia coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Bahia interior forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Campos Rupestres montane savanna	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Mato Grosso seasonal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Serra do Mar coastal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No

Prey / Diet

Chartergus globiventris	^[4]
Hypalastoroides ruficeps	^[4]
Polychrus acutirostris (Brazilian Bush Anole)	^[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Tyrannus albogularis (White-throated Kingbird)	1
Tyrannus savana (Fork-tailed Flycatcher)	1

Consumers

Parasitized by
Subulura travassosi <Unverified Name>	^[6]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ ¹Belton, W. 1984. Birds of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Part 1. Rheidae through Furnariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178: 369– 636.
♦ 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
♦ ⁴Raw, A. (1997). Avian predation on individual neotropical social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) outside their nests. Ornitologia neotropical, 8, 89-92.
♦ ⁵del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁶Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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

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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