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Cyanocorax cyanomelas (Purplish Jay)

Synonyms: Pica cyanomelas

Wikipedia Abstract

The purplish jay (Cyanocorax cyanomelas) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyanocorax cyanomelas

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.77663
EDGE Score: 1.56374

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  207 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  40 %
Diet - Scavenger [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  3
Snout to Vent Length [4]  15 inches (37 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Guettarda viburnoides[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Lycalopex vetulus (Hoary Fox)1
Pteroglossus castanotis (Chestnut-eared Aracari)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Cavalcanti, R.B. & M.A. Marini. 1993. Body masses of birds of the cerrado region, Brasil. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 113:209-212.
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.
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
5Loayza, Andrea P., and Tiffany Knight. 2010. Seed dispersal by pulp consumers, not “legitimate” seed dispersers, increases Guettarda viburnoides population growth Ecology 91:2684–2695
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