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Phrygilus patagonicus (Patagonian Sierra Finch)

Synonyms: Phrygilus gayi patagonicus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Patagonian sierra finch (Phrygilus patagonicus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.It is found in Argentina and Chile. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and temperate grassland. Its diet consists mainly of seeds, flower parts, nectar, fruit, and insects, but it has also been seen to forage on human refuse.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.61388
EDGE Score: 1.52907
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  20 grams
Diet [1]  Herbivore
Clutch Size [1]  3
Migration [2]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Glaucidium nana (Austral Pygmy Owl)[6]

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Embothrium coccineum (Chilean firetree)[7]

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Rarity in Chilean forest birds: which ecological and life-history traits matter?, Hernán L. Cofre, Katrin Böhning-Gaese and Pablo A. Marquet, Diversity and Distributions, 13: 203–212 (2007)
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3Diet of the patagonian Sierra-finch (Phrygilus patagonicus) on Navarino island, Chile, Steven M. McGehee & Jack Clinton Eitniear, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 18: 449–452, 2007
♦ 4Foraging behaviour of bird pollinators on Embothrium coccineum (Proteaceae) trees in forest fragments and pastures in southern Chile, CECILIA SMITH-RAMIREZ AND JUAN J. ARMESTO, Austral Ecology (2003) 28, 53–60
♦ 5Frugivory and seed dispersal of Podocarpus nubigena in Chiloé, Chile, Mary F. Willson, Carlos Sabag, Javier Figuero and Juan J. Armesto, Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69: 343-349, 1996
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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