Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Emberizidae > Torreornis > Torreornis inexpectataTorreornis inexpectata (Zapata Sparrow)The Zapata sparrow (Torreornis inexpectata) is a medium-sized grey and yellow bird that lives in the grasslands of the Zapata Swamp and elsewhere on the island of Cuba. Measuring about 16.5 centimetres (6.5 in) in length, it is grey and yellow overall with a dark reddish-brown crown and olive-grey upperparts. The Zapata sparrow is confined and endemic to Cuba. It was discovered by Spanish zoologist, Fermín Zanón Cervera in March 1927 around Santo Tomás in the Zapata Swamp and formally described by American herpetologist Thomas Barbour and his compatriot, ornithologist James Lee Peters in 1927. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.42952 EDGE Score: 3.77129 |
Adult Weight [1] | 26 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 70 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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Countries |
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Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Cuban cactus scrub |
Cuba |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Cuban dry forests |
Cuba |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Cuban moist forests |
Cuba |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cuban wetlands |
Cuba |
Neotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Ciénaga de Zapata |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Gran Humedal del Norte de Ciego de Ávila |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, B4i, B4ii |
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Hatibonico: Baitiquirí: Imías |
Cuba |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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. |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Arendt, W.J.; Faaborg, J.; Wallace, G.E.; Garrido, O.H. 2004. Biometrics of
birds throughout the Greater Caribbean basin. Proceedings of the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology. 8(1): 1-33. ♦ 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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 ♦ 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. 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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