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Curaeus curaeus (Austral Blackbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The austral blackbird (Curaeus curaeus) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae.It is found in Argentina and Chile.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Curaeus curaeus curaeus
Curaeus curaeus recurvirostris
Curaeus curaeus reynoldsi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.7955
EDGE Score: 1.56768
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  90 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [1]  4
Migration [3]  Migratory
Wing Span [4]  15 inches (.39 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Chilean matorral Chile Neotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Patagonian steppe Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Valdivian temperate forests Chile, Argentina Neotropic Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Prey / Diet

Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firetree)[5]
Podocarpus nubigenus (Chilean Podocarp)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Glaucidium nana (Austral Pygmy Owl)[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?, Hernán L. Cofre, Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Pablo A. Marquet, Diversity and Distributions, 13: 203–212 (2007)
♦ 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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4On the allometry of wings, Enrique Morgado, Bruno Günther and Urcesino Gonzalez, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 71-79, 1987
♦ 5Foraging behaviour of bird pollinators on Embothrium coccineum (Proteaceae) trees in forest fragments and pastures in southern Chile, CECILIA SMITH-RAMIREZ AND JUAN J. ARMESTO, Austral Ecology (2003) 28, 53–60
♦ 6Frugivory and seed dispersal of Podocarpus nubigena in Chiloé, Chile, Mary F. Willson, Carlos Sabag, Javier Figuero and Juan J. Armesto, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69: 343-349, 1996
♦ 7del 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