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Neocrex colombiana (Colombian Crake)

Synonyms: Neocrex colombianus; Neocrex colombianus colombianus; Neocrex columbianus columbianus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Colombian crake (Mustelirallus colombiana) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland and swamps.
View Wikipedia Record: Neocrex colombiana

Infraspecies

Neocrex colombiana colombiana
Neocrex colombiana ripleyi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.70992
EDGE Score: 2.9663
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  64 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [1]  6

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alta y Media Guajira Indigenous Reserve 2369998 La Guajira, Colombia      
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

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
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