Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Parulidae > Myiothlypis > Myiothlypis nigrocristata

Myiothlypis nigrocristata (Black-crested Warbler)

Synonyms: Basileuterus nigrocristatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-crested warbler (Myiothlypis nigrocristata) is a species of bird in the Parulidae family.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Myiothlypis nigrocristata

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.17764
EDGE Score: 1.82094
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Macarao National Park II 44345 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Guaramacal National Park II 62675 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Henri Pittier National Park 218030 Venezuela  
Podocarpus National Park II 364096 Ecuador  
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Body weights of 98 species of Andean cloud-forest birds, María Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Sergio Córdoba-Córdoba, Camilo A. Peraza, María Piedad Baptiste & Jorge A. Ahumada, Bull. B.O.C. 2006 126(4), pp. 291-298
♦ 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
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