Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Calyptophilus > Calyptophilus frugivorusCalyptophilus frugivorus (Eastern Chat-Tanager)Synonyms: Phaenicophilus frugivorus (homotypic) The eastern chat-tanager (Calyptophilus frugivorus) is a species of bird formerly placed in the family Thraupidae. It is found on the island of Hispaniola where it is now restricted to central and southern parts of the Dominican Republic. It formerly also occurred on the Samaná Peninsula as well as on Gonâve Island in Haiti. In the south-west of Hispaniola it is replaced by the Western Chat-tanager (C. tertius) which was formerly classified as a subspecies of the Eastern Chat-tanager. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.25625 EDGE Score: 3.61159 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 32 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Hispaniolan dry forests |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Hispaniolan moist forests |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Hispaniolan pine forests |
Haiti, Dominican Republic |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Armando Bermudez National Park |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Becs-Croisés |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Cornichons |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Aux Diablotins |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Bois Musicien |
Haiti |
A1, A2 |
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Eastern Bahoruco |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Honduras |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Nalga de Maco-Río Limpio |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Sierra de Bahoruco |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Sierra de Neyba |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Sierra Martin Garcia |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Valle Nuevo |
Dominican Republic |
A1, A2 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Caribbean Islands |
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Rimmer, CC, JM Almonte, EG Garrido, DA Mejia, MP Milagros, and PR Wieczoreck. 2003. Bird records in a montane forest fragment of western Sierra de Neiba, Dominican Republic. Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 16:55–60 ♦ 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 |
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
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