Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thamnophilidae > Myrmeciza > Myrmeciza ferruginea

Myrmeciza ferruginea (Ferruginous-backed Antbird)

Synonyms: Myrmoderus ferrugineus (homotypic); Myrmoderus ferrugineus ferrugineus; Turdus ferrugineus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The ferruginous-backed antbird (Myrmeciza ferruginea) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae.It inhabits the Guyanas and the northern Amazon Basin.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Myrmeciza ferruginea

Infraspecies

Myrmeciza ferruginea eluta
Myrmeciza ferruginea ferruginea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.12582
EDGE Score: 2.31509
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Imataca Forest Reserve VI 13252422 Venezuela  
Ralleigh Falls - Voltzberg Nature Reserve 191114 Suriname  

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
♦ 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
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