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Elaenia albiceps (White-crested Elaenia)

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-crested elaenia (Elaenia albiceps) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It has several subspecies breeding across southern and western parts of South America. Southern birds migrate north in winter. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Elaenia albiceps

Infraspecies

Elaenia albiceps albiceps
Elaenia albiceps chilensis
Elaenia albiceps diversa
Elaenia albiceps griseigularis
Elaenia albiceps modesta
Elaenia albiceps urubambae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.89509
EDGE Score: 1.58823
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15.6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Migration [4]  Intracontinental
Wing Span [5]  8 inches (.2 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Berberis vulgaris vulgaris (Common barberry)[6]
Drimys winteri (Winter's bark)[7]
Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firetree)[8]
Maytenus disticha[6]
Podocarpus nubigenus (Chilean Podocarp)[9]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Accipiter bicolor (Bicolored Hawk)[10]
Accipiter chilensis (Chilean Hawk)[11]
Glaucidium nana (Austral Pygmy Owl)[10]

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
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 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
♦ 5On the allometry of wings, Enrique Morgado, Bruno Günther and Urcesino Gonzalez, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 71-79, 1987
♦ 6THE AUTECOLOGY OF THE FÍO-FÍO (ELAENIA ALBICEPS LAFRESNAYE & D’ORBIGNY) IN SUBANTARCTIC FORESTS OF THE CAPE HORN BIOSPHERE RESERVE, CHILE., Clare E. Brown, Christopher B. Anderson, Silvina Ippi, Margaret F. Sherriffs, Rina Charlin, Steve McGehee & Ricardo Rozzi, Anales Instituto Patagonia (Chile), 2007. 35(2): 29-40
♦ 7Plant/frugivore interactions in South American temperate forests, JUAN J. ARMESTO, RICARDO ROZZI, PAMELA MIRANDA and CARLOS SABAG, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 60: 321-336, 1987
♦ 8Foraging 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
♦ 9Frugivory 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
♦ 10del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 11PREY OF BREEDING CHILEAN HAWKS (ACCIPITER CHILENSIS) IN AN ANDEAN NOTHOFAGUS FOREST IN NORTHERN PATAGONIA, RICARDO A. FIGUEROA ROJAS, SERGIO ALVARADO ORELLANA, SORAYA CORALES STAPPUNG, AND ISHBACK SHEHADEH, Wilson Bulletin 116(4):347–351, 2004
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