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Ramphocaenus melanurus (Long-billed Gnatwren)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The long-billed gnatwren (Ramphocaenus melanurus) is a very small bird in the gnatcatcher family. It is the only member of the genus Ramphocaenus (Vieillot, 1819), which means ‘unusual beak’, from the Ancient Greek rhamphos (ῥάµϕος, ‘beak’) and cænos (καινός, ‘strange’). It is found in the undergrowth and vines of dry forest and secondary woodland from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, and on Trinidad. R. m. trinitatis, of eastern Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad has paler underparts, and buff flanks and head sides.
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Infraspecies

Ramphocaenus melanurus albiventris
Ramphocaenus melanurus amazonum
Ramphocaenus melanurus ardeleo
Ramphocaenus melanurus austerus
Ramphocaenus melanurus badius
Ramphocaenus melanurus duidae
Ramphocaenus melanurus griseodorsalis
Ramphocaenus melanurus melanurus
Ramphocaenus melanurus obscurus
Ramphocaenus melanurus pallidus
Ramphocaenus melanurus panamensis
Ramphocaenus melanurus rufiventris
Ramphocaenus melanurus sanctaemarthae
Ramphocaenus melanurus sticturus
Ramphocaenus melanurus trinitatis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.7863
EDGE Score: 2.6937
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.5 grams
Birth Weight [3]  1.2 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  2
Fledging [1]  12 days
Incubation [5]  17 days

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Citations

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♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish 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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz 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
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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