Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cardinalidae > Cyanocompsa > Cyanocompsa cyanoides

Cyanocompsa cyanoides (Blue-black Grosbeak)

Synonyms: Coccoborus cyanoides; Cyanoloxia cyanoides; Cyanoloxia cyanoides cyanoides; Cyanoloxia cyanoides rothschildii; Passerina cyanoides
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Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-black grosbeak (Cyanocompsa cyanoides) is a species of songbird in the Cardinalidae family. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyanocompsa cyanoides

Infraspecies

Cyanocompsa cyanoides caerulescens
Cyanocompsa cyanoides concreta
Cyanocompsa cyanoides cyanoides

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.78509
EDGE Score: 2.17306
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  33 grams
Female Weight [4]  26 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  70 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [4]  3
Fledging [4]  12 days
Incubation [5]  13 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Karr, JR, MF Willson, and DJ Moriarty. 1978. Weights of some Central American birds. Brenesia 14–15:249–257
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5del 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