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Tetrastes sewerzowi (Severtzov's Grouse; Severtsov's Hazel Grouse)

Synonyms: Bonasa sewerzowi

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese grouse, also known as the Severtzov's grouse or black-breasted hazel grouse (Tetrastes sewerzowi) is a grouse species closely related to the hazel grouse. It is a sedentary bird which inhabits conifer-rich mixed montane forests of central China. The bird is very similar in appearance to the hazel grouse apart from less of a white stripe on the head and neck. The bird is named after a Russian explorer and naturalist, Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov.
View Wikipedia Record: Tetrastes sewerzowi

Infraspecies

Tetrastes sewerzowi secundus
Tetrastes sewerzowi sewerzowi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.57491
EDGE Score: 2.84199
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  267 grams
Diet [2]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [4]  6
Incubation [3]  28 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  14 inches (35 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Crossoptilon mantchuricum (Brown Eared Pheasant)1
Panurus biarmicus (Bearded Reedling)1
Phoenicurus erythrogastrus (White-winged redstart)1
Phoenicurus erythronotus (Rufous-backed redstart)1

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
♦ 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.
♦ 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
♦ 5Wang, J., Fang, Y., Klaus, S., & Sun, Y. H. (2012). Winter foraging strategy of the Chinese Grouse (Bonasa sewerzowi): ecological and physiological factors. Journal of ornithology, 153(2), 257-264.
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