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Coryphospingus pileatus (Grey Pileated Finch)

Synonyms: Fringilla pileata (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The grey pileated finch (Coryphospingus pileatus), also known as the pileated finch, is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, where it has recently been moved to from the Emberizidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, and Venezuela in subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Coryphospingus pileatus

Infraspecies

Coryphospingus pileatus brevicaudus
Coryphospingus pileatus pileatus
Coryphospingus pileatus rostratus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.00503
EDGE Score: 1.94663
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.3 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Morrocoy National Park 63672 Venezuela  
Reserve de Biosphere Cerrado Biosphere Reserve II 1812 Parana, Brazil  
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Pilosocereus arrabidae[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Euphonia chlorotica (Purple-throated Euphonia)1
Thraupis sayaca (Sayaca Tanager)1
Zonotrichia capensis (Rufous-collared Sparrow)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Verea, C., A. Solórzano, & A. Fernández-Badillo. 1999. Pesos y distribución de aves del soto- bosque del Parque Nacional Henri Pittier al norte de Venezuela Ornitol. Neotrop. 10: 217– 231
♦ 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
♦ 3Potential role of frugivorous birds (Passeriformes) on seed dispersal of six plant species in a restinga habitat, southeastern Brazil, Verônica Souza da Mota Gomes, Maria Célia Rodrigues Correia, Heloisa Alves de Lima & Maria Alice S. Alves, Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol.) Vol. 56 (1): 205-216, March 2008
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