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Podoces pleskei (Pleske's Ground Jay; Iranian Ground-jay)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Pleske's ground jay or Persian ground jay (Podoces pleskei) is a species of bird in the family Corvidae. It is endemic to Iran.
View Wikipedia Record: Podoces pleskei

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.39321
EDGE Score: 2.00056
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  87 grams
Birth Weight [2]  6 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [2]  4
Incubation [2]  18 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Naybandan Wildlife Refuge 3706581 Yazd, Iran      

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Bahram-e-Gour Protected Area Iran, Islamic Republic of A1, B2, B3
Hamoun-i Gabi Iran, Islamic Republic of B2, B3
Namakazar basin Iran, Islamic Republic of B3
Sahlabad area Iran, Islamic Republic of B3
Touran Iran, Islamic Republic of A1, B2, B3

Prey / Diet

Zygophyllum eurypterum[2]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Breeding ecology of the Iranian ground jay (Podoces pleskei), H. Radnezhad, N. Satei, M. Kaboli, M. Karami, N. Khorasani, R. Prodon, M. Foroughi Abari and S. Cheraghi, African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 10(21), pp. 4494-4500, 23 May, 2011
♦ 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
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