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Spinus barbatus (Black-chinned Siskin)

Synonyms: Carduelis barbata

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-chinned siskin (Spinus barbatus) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. Found in Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands, its natural habitats are temperate forests and heavily degraded former forest.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
4
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.81121
EDGE Score: 1.03362
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  22 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  70 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [1]  4
Migration [3]  Migratory

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Prey / Diet

Apium prostratum prostratum[4]
Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firetree)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Curaeus curaeus (Austral Blackbird)1
Elaenia albiceps (White-crested Elaenia)1
Molothrus bonariensis (Shiny Cowbird)1
Phrygilus patagonicus (Patagonian Sierra Finch)1
Sephanoides sephaniodes (Green-backed firecrown)1

Predators

Accipiter bicolor (Bicolored Hawk)[4]
Accipiter chilensis (Chilean Hawk)[6]
Buteo albigula (White-throated Hawk)[4]

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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Foraging behaviour of bird pollinators on Embothrium coccineum (Proteaceae) trees in forest fragments and pastures in southern Chile, CECILIA SMITH-RAMIREZ AND JUAN J. ARMESTO, Austral Ecology (2003) 28, 53–60
♦ 6PREY OF BREEDING CHILEAN HAWKS (ACCIPITER CHILENSIS) IN AN ANDEAN NOTHOFAGUS FOREST IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA, RICARDO A. FIGUEROA ROJAS, SERGIO ALVARADO ORELLANA, SORAYA CORALES STAPPUNG, AND ISHBACK SHEHADEH, Wilson Bulletin 116(4):347–351, 2004
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