World Species : Phacellodomus ruber (Greater Thornbird)

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Phacellodomus ruber (Greater Thornbird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The greater thornbird (Phacellodomus ruber) is a species of bird in the Furnariidae family. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 2.63337

EDGE Score: 1.29016

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	41 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	100 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	50 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	50 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	4

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Alta Paraná Atlantic forests	Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Beni savanna	Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Cerrado	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Chiquitano dry forests	Bolivia, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Dry Chaco	Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Humid Chaco	Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Pantanal	Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Paraná flooded savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southern Andean Yungas	Bolivia, Argentina	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Cone Mesopotamian savanna	Argentina	Neotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Southwest Amazon moist forests	Peru, Brazil, Bolivia	Neotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Atlantic Forest	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay	No
Cerrado	Brazil	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Belton, W. 1984. Birds of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Part 1. Rheidae through Furnariidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 178: 369– 636.
♦ 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.

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