World Species : Culicivora caudacuta (Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant)

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Culicivora caudacuta (Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The sharp-tailed grass tyrant (Culicivora caudacuta) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the only one in the genus Culicivora. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.It is threatened by habitat loss.

View Wikipedia Record: Culicivora caudacuta

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Culicivora caudacuta

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 9.4598

EDGE Score: 3.73383

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	5.8 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	90 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	100 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	3

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Araucaria moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Espinal	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Important Bird Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Biologia de Culicivora caudacuta (Aves: Tyrannidae) no Cerrado, Brasília, DF, Nadinni Oliveira de Matos Sousa e Miguel Ângelo Marini, Rev. Bras. Ornitol. 15(4):569-573
♦ 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
♦ ³del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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