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Asthenes patagonica (Patagonian Canastero)

Synonyms: Pseudasthenes patagonica (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Patagonian canastero (Pseudasthenes patagonica) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is endemic to Argentina. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
View Wikipedia Record: Asthenes patagonica

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
6
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.16655
EDGE Score: 1.15264
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  4
Incubation [1]  15 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Espinal Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Low Monte Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Patagonian steppe Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Important Bird Areas

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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