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Poecile sclateri (Mexican Chickadee)

Synonyms: Parus sclateri

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mexican chickadee (Poecile sclateri) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is still often placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships (Gill et al., 2005). The American Ornithologists' Union had been treating Poecile as distinct genus for some time already.
View Wikipedia Record: Poecile sclateri

Infraspecies

Poecile sclateri eidos
Poecile sclateri garzai
Poecile sclateri rayi
Poecile sclateri sclateri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.43942
EDGE Score: 2.13291
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10 grams
Birth Weight [3]  0.9 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican highland forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican highland forests, Mexican pine-oak forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  80 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year
Clutch Size [6]  7
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  2,000,000
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  10 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests Mexico, United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests Mexico, United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Plains Biosphere Reserve 15345 United States  
Chiricahua National Monument V 1421 Arizona, United States
Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve 327376 Arizona, United States  
Reserva de la Michilia Biosphere Reserve VI 23405 Durango, Mexico  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States Yes

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 6Jetz 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
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