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Tersina viridis (Swallow Tanager)

Synonyms: Hirundo viridis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Tersina is a genus of tanager. It contains a single species, the swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) . It is found widely throughout South America, from Panama to n. Argentina. The species is somewhat dimorphic, as the female is a yellow-green, and the male a brighter light emerald-green, with a small deep black face and upper throat patch.
View Wikipedia Record: Tersina viridis

Infraspecies

Tersina viridis grisescens
Tersina viridis occidentalis
Tersina viridis viridis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.86039
EDGE Score: 2.18159
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  60 %
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  24 days
Incubation [4]  15 days
Migration [5]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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.
♦ 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Avifauna dispersora de sementes de Alchornea glandulosa (Euphorbiaceae) em uma área de mata ciliar no estado de São Paulo Márcia Cristina Pascotto; Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia 14 (3) 291-296 setembro de 2006
♦ 7"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 8Frugivoria realizada por aves em Myrciaria trunciflora (Mart) O. Berg. (Myrtaceae), Eugenia uniflora L. (Myrtaceae) e Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil. no norte do estado do Rio Grande do Sul; Juliano Colussi, e Nêmora Pauletti Prestes; Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, 19(1):48-55
♦ 9Shayana de Jesus e Emygdio Leite de Araujo Monteiro-Filho 2007. Frugivoria por aves em Schinus terebinthifolius (Anacardiaceae) e Myrsine coriacea (Myrsinaceae) Rev. Bras. Ornitol. 15(4):585-591
♦ 10Sazonalidade e dieta frugívora do saí-andorinha Tersina viridis (Illiger, 1911) em reflorestamento da mata ciliar do Rio Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, Brasil, Rubim, Paulo, Biota Neotrop., vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 111-115 (2009)
♦ 11Bird frugivory on Struthanthus concinnus (Loranthaceae) in Southeastern Brazil, Tadeu J. Guerra and Miguel Ângelo Marini, Ararajuba 10 (2): 187-192 (2002)
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