Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cardinalidae > Pheucticus > Pheucticus tibialisPheucticus tibialis (Black-thighed Grosbeak)The black-thighed grosbeak (Pheucticus tibialis) is a large seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, which is endemic to the mountains of Costa Rica and western Panama. This species breeds from about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) altitude (Pacific slope) or 1,500 m (4,900 ft) (Caribbean slope) up to 2,600 m (8,500 ft) and is found in canopy, woodland edge and semi-open habitats such as pasture with some trees. The nest is a thin cup constructed on a bulky twig base 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) up in a small tree or amongst vines. The female lays two brown-spotted pale blue eggs between March and May. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.43992 EDGE Score: 1.86252 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 62 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 78 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Tropical cloud forests | | Wintering Geography [2] | Non-migrartory | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Tropical cloud forests | | | Forages - Canopy [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 60 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 20 % | | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 |
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Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land
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Talamancan montane forests |
Costa Rica, Panama |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Arenal-Monteverde |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Central Volcanic Cordillera |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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El Rodeo, Cerros de Escazú and La Carpintera |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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General de División Omar Torrijos Herrera National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2 |
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La Amistad Caribe |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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La Amistad International Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Palo Seco Protection Forest |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Santa Clara |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Santa Fé National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Talamanca Highlands |
Costa Rica |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Volcán Barú National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
Yes |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Hartman FA 1961. Locomotor mechanisms of birds. Smithson Misc Collect 143:1–91 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Hamish 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 ♦ 4Nathan 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 ♦ 5Jetz 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 ♦ 6Frugivorous Birds, Habitat Preference and Seed Dispersal in a Fragmented Costa Rican Montane Oak Forest Landscape, J.J.A.M. Wilms and M. Kappelle, Ecological Studies Vol 185, pp. 309-324 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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