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Spinus xanthogastrus (Yellow-bellied Siskin)

Synonyms: Carduelis xanthogastra

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-bellied siskin (Spinus xanthogastra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It breeds from Costa Rica south to southern Ecuador, central Bolivia and the highlands of northwestern Venezuela. The subspecies S. x. stejnegeri which occurs from extreme southeastern Peru to central Bolivia is larger and longer-billed than nominate S. x. xanthogastra. Males have larger yellow wing patches and more extensive black on the flanks. Females of this subspecies are darker olive above than the northern birds. The phylogeny has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.
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Infraspecies

Spinus xanthogastrus stejnegeri
Spinus xanthogastrus xanthogastrus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
2
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.53699
EDGE Score: 0.930977
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12.7 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Diet [3]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [3]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  70 %
Clutch Size [4]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
La Amistad International Park National Park II 541617 Panama, Costa Rica  
Madidi National Park II 3194501 Bolivia  
Parque Nacional Henri Pittier National Park 218030 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Yacambu National Park II 43025 Venezuela  
Reserva Nacional de Fauna Ulla Ulla National Fauna Reserve 559837 Bolivia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Fuchsia paniculata (shrubby fuchsia)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1The Impact of Body Mass on Morphological Integration in Avian Skeletons (Aves, Fringillidae; Carduelinae, Fringillinae), Renate VAN DEN ELZEN & Hans L. NEMESCHKAL, Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56 (2007), pp. 25-35
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5Frugivorous Birds, Habitat Preference and Seed Dispersal in a Fragmented Costa Rican Montane Oak Forest Landscape, J.J.A.M. Wilms and M. Kappelle, Ecological Studies Vol 185, pp. 309-324
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