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Chlorophonia occipitalis (Blue-crowned Chlorophonia)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-crowned chlorophonia (Chlorophonia occipitalis) is a species of bird in the Fringillidae family.It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Chlorophonia occipitalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.23143
EDGE Score: 1.65469

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical cloud forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  90 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  60 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [1]  3
Incubation [1]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cerro Verde National Park   El Salvador      
Complejo San Marcelino Wildlife Refuge   El Salvador      
Montecristo National Park IV 9237 El Salvador  
Proyecto Ecologico Quetzal   Guatemala    

Important Bird 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

Prey / Diet

Ficus reflexa reflexa[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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
4"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