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Loxigilla violacea (Greater Antillean Bullfinch)

Synonyms: Loxia violacea (homotypic); Melopyrrha violacea (homotypic); Melopyrrha violacea parishi; Melopyrrha violacea violacea; Pyrrhulagra violacea (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Greater Antillean bullfinch (Loxigilla violacea) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.It is found in The Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica (endemic sub-species L. v. ruficollis), and Turks and Caicos Islands.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Loxigilla violacea affinis
Loxigilla violacea maurella
Loxigilla violacea ofella
Loxigilla violacea parishi
Loxigilla violacea ruficollis
Loxigilla violacea violacea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.76658
EDGE Score: 1.75208
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20 grams
Female Weight [1]  19 grams
Male Weight [1]  22 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.8 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  70 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Île-à-Vache   Haiti  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

Prey / Diet

Acnistus arborescens (hollowheart)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 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
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4"Bird Activity and Seed Dispersal of a Montane Forest Tree (Dunalia arborescens) in Jamaica", Alexander Cruz, Biotropica Vol. 13, No. 2, Supplement: Reproductive Botany (Jun., 1981), pp. 34-44
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