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Euphonia elegantissima (Elegant Euphonia)

Synonyms: Chlorophonia elegantissima (homotypic); Chlorophonia elegantissima elegantissima; Chlorophonia elegantissima vincens
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The elegant or blue-hooded euphonia (Euphonia elegantissima) is a species of bird in the Fringillidae family. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
View Wikipedia Record: Euphonia elegantissima

Infraspecies

Euphonia elegantissima elegantissima
Euphonia elegantissima rileyi
Euphonia elegantissima vincens

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.78096
EDGE Score: 1.75457
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  15 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical dry forests, Tropical cloud forests, Pine-oak forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Mexican pine-oak forests, Tropical dry forests, Tropical cloud forests
Diet [3]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  60 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [4]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Isler, ML & Isler, PR 1999. The tanagers: natural history, distribution, and identification. Second edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC
♦ 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
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