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Peucaea ruficauda (Stripe-headed Sparrow)

Synonyms: Aimophila ruficauda; Chondestes ruficauda
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The stripe-headed sparrow (Peucaea ruficauda) is an American sparrow which breeds from Pacific coastal south-western Mexico, including the transverse ranges, Cordillera Neovolcanica to Pacific coastal northern Costa Rica. This common bird is found in lowlands up to 1,800 m (5,900 ft) in altitude in the north of its range, and 800 m (2,600 ft) in Costa Rica. Its habitat is brushy savannah, scrubby second growth and woodland edges, but it avoids the forest interior. Young birds have a duller, indistinct head pattern, with buff stripes and a brown ground colour, and have streaked breasts.
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Infraspecies

Peucaea ruficauda acuminata
Peucaea ruficauda connectens
Peucaea ruficauda ibarrorum
Peucaea ruficauda lawrencii
Peucaea ruficauda ruficauda

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.39941
EDGE Score: 2.0014
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  28 grams
Male Weight [5]  28 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical dry forests, Agricultural
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  90 %
Clutch Size [4]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve   Costa Rica  
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Reserva Karen Mogensen F. Nature Reserve 1866 Costa Rica  
Reserva de Mapimi Biosphere Reserve VI 849819 Chihuahua, Mexico  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Guanacaste lowlands Costa Rica A1, A3
Nicoya Peninsula Costa Rica A1, A3, A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama Yes

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
♦ 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
♦ 5Selander, RK, and DR Giller 1959. The avifauna of the Barranca de Oblatos, Jalisco, Mexico. Condor 61:210-222
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