Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cardinalidae > Saltator > Saltator orenocensisSaltator orenocensis (Orinoco Saltator)The Orinoco saltator or Orinocan saltator (Saltator orenocensis) is a species of saltator in the Cardinalidae family.It is found in Venezuela in areas west, north, and upon the Orinoco River region and to the Caribbean coast; also border regions in adjacent northeast Colombia. It can also be found on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.58973 EDGE Score: 1.72093 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 34 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Nectarivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 40 % | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Land Use |
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Complejo de Humedales Costeros de la Guajira |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Humedal La Lipa |
Colombia |
A1, A3 |
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Humedales Boca de Hueque y Sauca |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Humedales Boca del Río Unare |
Venezuela |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Parque Nacional Aguaro-Guariquito |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Médanos de Coro |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Mochima |
Venezuela |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Natural Macuira |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Parque Nacional Santos Luzardo |
Venezuela |
A1, A3, A4iii |
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Reserva de Biosfera RAMSAR Ciénaga Grande, Isla de Salamanca y Sabana Grande |
Colombia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Reserva de Fauna Silvestre Esteros de Camaguán |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Reserva Privada Hato El Cedral |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Reserva Privada Hato El Frío |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Reserva Privada Hato Masaguaral |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Reserva Privada Hato Piñero |
Venezuela |
A1, A3 |
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Endemic |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Bosque C., MA Pacheco, and RB Siegel. 1999. Maintenance energy costs
of two partially folivorous tropical passerines. Auk 116:246–252. ♦ 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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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