Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Cyanerpes > Cyanerpes nitidus

Cyanerpes nitidus (Short-billed Honeycreeper)

Synonyms: Coereba nitida

Wikipedia Abstract

The short-billed honeycreeper (Cyanerpes nitidus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyanerpes nitidus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.62849
EDGE Score: 1.89138

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  90 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  10 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cordillera Azul National Park 3367365 Huanuco, Peru  
El Caura Forest Reserve VI 12722815 Venezuela  
Jaú National Park II 5890355 Amazonas, Brazil  
Sierra del Divisor Reserve Zone 3652986 Peru      

Prey / Diet

Goupia glabra[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Isler, ML & Isler, PR 1999. The tanagers: natural history, distribution, and identification. Second edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
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
3The fruits of selectivity: how birds forage on Goupia glabra fruits of different ripeness, H. Martin Schaefer, Veronika Schaefer, J Ornithol (2006) 147:638–643
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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