World Species : Knipolegus aterrimus (White-winged Black Tyrant)

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Knipolegus aterrimus (White-winged Black Tyrant)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The white-winged black tyrant (Knipolegus aterrimus) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It has often included the Sao Francisco black tyrant (K. franciscanus) as a subspecies.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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Infraspecies

Knipolegus aterrimus anthracinus
Knipolegus aterrimus aterrimus
Knipolegus aterrimus franciscanus (Caatinga Black-tyrant)
Knipolegus aterrimus heterogyna (White-rumped Black-tyrant)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.60329

EDGE Score: 1.52677

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	20 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	33 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Atlantic dry forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Bolivian montane dry forests	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Bolivian Yungas	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central Andean dry puna	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Central Andean puna	Argentina, Bolivia, Peru	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Central Andean wet puna	Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Espinal	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
High Monte	Argentina	Neotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Humid Pampas	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Low Monte	Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Patagonian steppe	Chile, Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Andean steppe	Argentina, Chile	Neotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Valdivian temperate forests	Chile, Argentina	Neotropic	Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Cerrado	Brazil	No
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests	Chile	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Fiora, A. 1934. El peso de las aves. Hornero 5: 353–365
♦ 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

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