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Pithys castaneus (White-masked antbird)

Synonyms: Pithys castanea

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-masked antbird (Pithys castaneus) is a bird species in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.This little-known bird was formerly considered a data deficient species by the IUCN. But new research has found it somewhat rare and declining. Consequently, it is classified as Near Threatened in 2008.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.3726
EDGE Score: 2.81811
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Napo moist forests Colombia, Venezuela, Peru Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Lane, DF, Valqui, HT, Alvarez, AJ, Armenta, J. & Eckhardt, K. 2006. The rediscovery and natural history of the White-masked Antbird (Pithys castaneus). Wilson J. Ornithol. 118, 13–22
♦ 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
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