Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Tyrannidae > Knipolegus > Knipolegus hudsoni

Knipolegus hudsoni (Hudson's Black Tyrant)

Wikipedia Abstract

Hudson's black tyrant (Knipolegus hudsoni) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae. It is named after Argentine-British ornithologist William Henry Hudson. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
View Wikipedia Record: Knipolegus hudsoni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.67833
EDGE Score: 1.54294
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13.8 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Migration [3]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Estacion Biologica Beni Biosphere Reserve VI 335178 Bolivia  
Tinfunqué National Park 607935 Paraguay  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Caldenal del Sudoeste de Buenos Aires Argentina A1
Estepas arbustivas del Sur de Buenos Aires Argentina A1
Paso de los Indios Argentina A1
Reserva de Biosfera de Ñacuñan Argentina A1
San Antonio Oeste Argentina A1, A4i, A4iii

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Fry, CH 1970. Ecological distribution of birds in north-eastern Mato Grosso State, Brazil. Anales de la Academia Brasileña de Ciéncias 42:275–318
♦ 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
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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