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Culicivora caudacuta (Sharp-tailed Grass Tyrant)

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) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
46
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.4598
EDGE Score: 3.73383

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

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

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