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Asthenes modesta (Cordilleran Canastero)

Wikipedia Abstract

The cordilleran canastero (Asthenes modesta) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. Seven subspecies are recognized:
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Infraspecies

Asthenes modesta australis
Asthenes modesta cordobae
Asthenes modesta hilereti
Asthenes modesta modesta
Asthenes modesta navasi
Asthenes modesta proxima
Asthenes modesta rostrata
Asthenes modesta serrana

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
7
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.52592
EDGE Score: 1.26014
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  17 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Fiora, A. 1933. El peso de las aves. Hornero 5: 174–188
♦ 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