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Catharus aurantiirostris (Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The orange-billed nightingale-thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest. It is fairly common within its range. It forages on the ground for insects and fruit.
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Infraspecies

Catharus aurantiirostris aenopennis
Catharus aurantiirostris aurantiirostris
Catharus aurantiirostris bangsi
Catharus aurantiirostris barbaritoi
Catharus aurantiirostris birchalli
Catharus aurantiirostris clarus
Catharus aurantiirostris costaricensis
Catharus aurantiirostris griseiceps
Catharus aurantiirostris inornatus
Catharus aurantiirostris insignis
Catharus aurantiirostris melpomene
Catharus aurantiirostris phaeopleurus
Catharus aurantiirostris russatus
Catharus aurantiirostris sierrae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.7342
EDGE Score: 2.16725
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Birth Weight [3]  4 grams
Male Weight [5]  24 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical dry forests, Montane evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical dry forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Understory [4]  20 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [7]  2
Fledging [5]  14 days
Incubation [6]  14 days
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Snout to Vent Length [5]  6 inches (16 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Ficus reflexa reflexa[8]
Miconia trinervia[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1SalvaNATURA - Programa de Monitoreo de Aves
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
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