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Diuca diuca (Common Diuca Finch)

Synonyms: Fringilla diuca (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The common diuca finch (Diuca diuca) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.10479
EDGE Score: 1.80907

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  24 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  3
Incubation [3]  13 days
Migration [4]  Intracontinental
Wing Span [1]  9 inches (.23 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Erodium cicutarium (redstem)[5]
Senna candolleana[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Glaucidium nana (Austral Pygmy Owl)[3]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1On the allometry of wings, Enrique Morgado, Bruno Günther and Urcesino Gonzalez, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 71-79, 1987
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.
4Myers, 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
5Dieta de Zonotrichia capensis (Emberizidae) y Diuca diuca (Fringillidae): efecto de la variación estacional de los recursos tróficos y la riqueza de aves granívoras en Chile central, M. VICTORIA LOPEZ-CALLEJA, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 68:321-331, 1995
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