Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Euphonia > Euphonia elegantissimaEuphonia elegantissima (Elegant Euphonia)Synonyms: Chlorophonia elegantissima (homotypic); Chlorophonia elegantissima elegantissima; Chlorophonia elegantissima vincens Language: Spanish 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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.78096 EDGE Score: 1.75457 |
Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | 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 | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [3] | 100 % | Forages - Canopy [3] | 60 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 40 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 3 |
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Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Bajío dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American montane forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central American pine-oak forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Chiapas montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Chimalapas montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Jalisco dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Oaxacan montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra de los Tuxtlas |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forest |
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Veracruz montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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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 |
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
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