World Species : Myrmotherula brachyura (Pygmy Antwren)

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Myrmotherula brachyura (Pygmy Antwren)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The pygmy antwren (Myrmotherula brachyura) is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae, the antbirds.It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical swamps, and heavily degraded former forest. The pygmy antwren is a bird of the entire Amazon Basin, the Guianan region, and the southeast Orinoco River Basin in Venezuela; besides northern Brazil, it occurs in Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.25261

EDGE Score: 1.833

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	6.4 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	100 %

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Caqueta moist forests	Brazil, Columbia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cauca Valley montane forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Chocó-Darién moist forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Panamanian montane forests	Colombia, Panama	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan Freshwater swamp forests	Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan moist forests	Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guianan savanna	Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Gurupa varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Iquitos varzea	Brazil, Peru, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Japurá-Solimoes-Negro moist forests	Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Juruá-Purus moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Madeira-Tapajós moist forests	Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena-Urabá moist forests	Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Marajó varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mato Grosso seasonal forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Monte Alegre varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Napo moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Negro-Branco moist forests	Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Pantepuis	Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus varzea	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Purus-Madeira moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rio Negro campinarana	Brazil, Colombia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solimões-Japurá moist forest	Brazil, Colombia, Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Tocantins/Pindare moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests	Brazil, Guyana, Suriname	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ucayali moist forests	Peru	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Ecuador moist forests	Colombia, Ecuador	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests	Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Haverschmidt, F. and GF Mees. 1994. Birds of Suriname. Vaco, Paramaribo, Surinam
♦ 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