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Aburria cumanensis (Blue-throated Piping-guan)

Synonyms: Crax cumanensis; Pipile cumanensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-throated piping guan (Pipile cumanensis) is a South American bird of the family Cracidae that is somewhat similar in appearance to the turkey.
View Wikipedia Record: Aburria cumanensis

Infraspecies

Aburria cumanensis cumanensis
Aburria cumanensis grayi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.46337
EDGE Score: 2.62854
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.716 lbs (1.232 kg)
Female Weight [4]  2.555 lbs (1.159 kg)
Male Weight [1]  2.921 lbs (1.325 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  16.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years
Clutch Size [6]  3
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Incubation [5]  26 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  26 inches (65 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Beni Biological Station Biosphere Reserve Bolivia A1, A3
Reserva Forestal Alto Paraguá Bolivia A1, A2

Prey / Diet

Cecropia membranacea[5]
Oenocarpus bataua var. bataua[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
♦ 3Use and conservation of Cracidae (Aves: Galliformes) in the Peruvian Amazon, Alfredo J. Begazo and Richard E. Bodmer, ORYX VOL 32 NO 4 OCTOBER 1998, pp. 301-309
♦ 4Willard, DE, Foster, MS, Barrowclough, GF, Dickerman, RW, Cannell, PF, Coats, SL, Cracraft, JL, & O'Neill, JP 1991. The birds of Cerro de la Neblina, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela. Fieldiana: Zoology, NS 65: 1-80
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz 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
♦ 7Foods and Feeding Behavior of Wild Black-capped Capuchin (Cebus apella), KOSEI IZAWA, PRIMATES, 20(1): 57-76, January 1979
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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