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Myioborus ornatus (Golden-fronted Whitestart; Yellow-fronted Whitestart)

Wikipedia Abstract

The golden-fronted whitestart (Myioborus ornatus), or, less accurately, the golden-fronted redstart, is a species of bird in the Parulidae family. It is found in forest, woodland and scrub in the Andes of Colombia and far western Venezuela.
View Wikipedia Record: Myioborus ornatus

Infraspecies

Myioborus ornatus chrysops (Golden-fronted Whitestart)
Myioborus ornatus ornatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
4
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.90564
EDGE Score: 1.06665
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cauca Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera Oriental montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern Andean montane forests Colombia, Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva Natural Tambito   Colombia      

Important Bird Areas

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
♦ 1Body weights of 98 species of Andean cloud-forest birds, María Ángela Echeverry-Galvis, Sergio Córdoba-Córdoba, Camilo A. Peraza, María Piedad Baptiste & Jorge A. Ahumada, Bull. B.O.C. 2006 126(4), pp. 291-298
♦ 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
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