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Elaenia dayi (Great Elaenia)

Wikipedia Abstract

The great elaenia (Elaenia dayi) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is endemic and restricted mostly to the higher altitude plateau-Tepuis of Venezuela and far northern Brazil, and may also occur in Guyana. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
View Wikipedia Record: Elaenia dayi

Infraspecies

Elaenia dayi auyantepui
Elaenia dayi dayi
Elaenia dayi tyleri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.70815
EDGE Score: 2.04228
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [1]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  70 %
Forages - Canopy [1]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [1]  70 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Pantepuis Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alto Orinoco-Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve 20756852 Amazonas, Venezuela      
Formaciones de Tepuyes Natural Monument 1408056 Venezuela  
Imataca Forest Reserve VI 13252422 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Canaima National Park II 7542183 Venezuela  
San Pedro Forest Plot 1871576 Bolívar, Venezuela  

Important Bird Areas

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
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