World Species : Gymnopithys rufigula (Rufous-throated Antbird)

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Gymnopithys rufigula (Rufous-throated Antbird)

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Synonyms: Turdus rufigula

Wikipedia Abstract

The rufous-throated antbird (Gymnopithys rufigula) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

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Infraspecies

Gymnopithys rufigula pallidigula
Gymnopithys rufigula pallidus
Gymnopithys rufigula rufigula

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.30004

EDGE Score: 1.45862

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	29 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	90 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	40 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	60 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Highlands moist forests	Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
El Caura Forest Reserve	VI	12722815	Venezuela
Imataca Forest Reserve	VI	13252422	Venezuela
Maracá Ecological Reserve	Ia	257554	Roraima, Brazil
Ralleigh Falls - Voltzberg Nature Reserve		191114	Suriname
Yanomami Indigenous Area		23882673	Brazil

Important Bird Areas

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Bierregaard Jr., R.O. 1988. Morphological data from understory birds in terra firme forest in the central Amazonian basin. Revista brasileira de Biologia, 48:169-178.
♦ 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

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