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Myioborus albifrons (White-fronted Whitestart)

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-fronted whitestart (Myioborus albifrons), or, less accurately, the white-fronted redstart, is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is endemic to forest and woodland in the Andes in western Venezuela. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.6887
EDGE Score: 1.99842
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [1]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [1]  20 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Venezuelan Andes montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parque Nacional Guaramacal National Park II 62675 Venezuela  
Ríos Guanare, Boconó, Tucupido, La Yuca y Masparro Protective Zone 988422 Venezuela  
Sierra Nevada National Park II 683113 Venezuela  
Sureste del Lago de Maracaibo Sto. Domingo-Motatán Protective Zone 1004884 Venezuela  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Parque Nacional Guaramacal Venezuela A1, A2, A3
Parque Nacional Páramos Batallón y La Negra Venezuela A1, A2, A3
Parque Nacional Sierra La Culata Venezuela A1, A2, A3
Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada Venezuela A1, A2, A3
Refugio de Fauna Silvestre y Reserva de Pesca Parque Nacional Dinira Venezuela A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
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