World Species : Panyptila sanctihieronymi (Great Swallow-tailed Swift)

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Panyptila sanctihieronymi (Great Swallow-tailed Swift)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The great swallow-tailed swift (Panyptila sanctihieronymi) is a species of swift in the Apodidae family.It is found in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 12.5931

EDGE Score: 2.60956

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	49 grams

Breeding Habitat ^[2]	Mexican highland forests, Montane evergreen forests
Wintering Geography ^[2]	Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat ^[2]	Mexican highland forests

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	100 %
Forages - Aerial ^[3]	100 %

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Balsas dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Central American montane forests	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests	Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Chiapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chimalapas montane forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Jalisco dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest	Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Southern Pacific dry forests	Mexico	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Complejo San Marcelino Wildlife Refuge			El Salvador
Cordillera Volcanica Central Forest Reserve	VI	150571	Costa Rica
La Selva Biological Station Protective Zone	VI	6052	Costa Rica
Montecristo National Park	IV	9237	El Salvador

Important Bird Areas

Name	Location	IBA Criteria
Antigua Guatemala	Guatemala	A1, A2, A3
Dipilto-Jalapa Mountain Range	Nicaragua	A1, A2, A3
Miraflor	Nicaragua	A1, A2, A3
Montecristo Forest	El Salvador	A1, A2, A3
Río Sapo/Perquín	El Salvador	A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No

Range Map

External References

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.
♦ ³Hamish 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