Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Turdidae > Turdus > Turdus rufiventris

Turdus rufiventris (Rufous-bellied Thrush)

Wikipedia Abstract

The rufous-bellied thrush (Turdus rufiventris) is a songbird of the thrush family (Turdidae). It occurs in most of east and southeast Brazil from Maranhão south to Rio Grande do Sul states, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern regions of Argentina. In Brazil it is known as the robin. This common and wide-ranging species is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
View Wikipedia Record: Turdus rufiventris

Infraspecies

Turdus rufiventris juensis
Turdus rufiventris rufiventris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
13
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.90161
EDGE Score: 1.58957
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  69 grams
Birth Weight [2]  5.8 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  50 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [2]  13 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (24 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Emblem of

Brazil

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anomotaenia korochirei <Unverified Name>[12]
Hymenolepis fernandensis <Unverified Name>[12]
Passerilepis crenata[12]

Range Map

External References

Audio

Play / PauseVolume
Provided by Xeno-canto under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License Author: Jeremy Minns

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
♦ 2Auer, SK, RD Bassar, JJ Fontaine, and TE Martin. 2007. Breeding biology of passerines in a subtropical montane forest in northwestern Argentina Condor 109:321–333
♦ 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5Frugivory by birds in Alchornea triplinervia (Euphorbiaceae) in the Atlantic Forest of the Três Picos State Park, Rio de Janeiro State, southeast Brazil. Ricardo Parrini & José Fernando Pacheco; Atualidades Ornitológicas On-line Nº 162 - Julho/Agosto 2011
♦ 6The sweet jelly of Combretum lanceolatum flowers (Combretaceae): a cornucopia resource for bird pollinators in the Pantanal, western Brazil, M. Sazima, S. Vogel, A. L. do Prado, D. M. de Oliveira, G. Franz, and I. Sazima, Plant Syst. Evol. 227: 195-208 (2001)
♦ 7Aspectos da frugivoria por aves em Cupania oblongifolia (Sapindaceae) na Mata Atlântica do Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Ricardo Parrini & José Fernando Pacheco; Atualidades Ornitológicas, 178, março e abril de 2014
♦ 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
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 10Shayana 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
♦ 11Bird frugivory on Struthanthus concinnus (Loranthaceae) in Southeastern Brazil, Tadeu J. Guerra and Miguel Ângelo Marini, Ararajuba 10 (2): 187-192 (2002)
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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