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Melozone albicollis (White-throated Towhee)

Synonyms: Kieneria albicollis; Pipilo albicollis
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-throated towhee (Melozone albicollis) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family that is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
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Infraspecies

Melozone albicollis albicollis
Melozone albicollis marshalli

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.42045
EDGE Score: 1.69018
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  46 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Desert scrub
Forages - Mid-High [3]  30 %
Forages - Understory [3]  40 %
Forages - Ground [3]  30 %
Clutch Size [4]  4

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve 1211278 Mexico      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States Yes

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Davis, J. 1951. Distribution and variation of the brown towhees. University of California Publications in Zoology 52:1–120
♦ 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
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