Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cotingidae > Rupicola > Rupicola peruvianusRupicola peruvianus (Andean Cock-of-the-rock)Synonyms: Rupicola peruviana The Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus), also known as tunki (Quechua), is a large passerine bird of the cotinga family native to Andean cloud forests in South America. It is widely regarded as the national bird of Peru. It has four subspecies and its closest relative is the Guianan cock-of-the-rock. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.42616 EDGE Score: 2.34432 |
Adult Weight [1] | 246 grams | Birth Weight [1] | 24 grams | Female Weight [1] | 220 grams | Male Weight [1] | 273 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 24.1 % | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 70 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | Diet - Vertibrates [2] | 10 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 30 % | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Clutches / Year [1] | 1 | Fledging [1] | 43 days | Incubation [3] | 28 days | Mating System [4] | Promiscuity |
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Tropical Andes |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela |
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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. ♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 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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