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Asthenes humicola (Dusky-tailed Canastero)

Synonyms: Pseudasthenes humicola (homotypic); Pseudasthenes humicola humicola

Wikipedia Abstract

The dusky-tailed canastero (Pseudasthenes humicola) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina and Chile. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
View Wikipedia Record: Asthenes humicola

Infraspecies

Asthenes humicola goodalli
Asthenes humicola humicola
Asthenes humicola polysticta

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.38195
EDGE Score: 1.85347
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  22.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  60 %
Clutch Size [3]  4

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Chilean matorral Chile Neotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Southern Andean steppe Argentina, Chile Neotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Valdivian temperate forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?, Hernán L. Cofre, Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Pablo A. Marquet, Diversity and Distributions, 13: 203–212 (2007)
♦ 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
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