Ortalis vetula

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• Description
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,850 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 381 meters (0 to 1,250 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Primarily plant matter, with some insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Clutch Size: 3
• Length of Incubation : 25(22-27) days
• Days to Fledge : 14-21(?)
• Number of Broods: 1

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ortalis vetula (Wagler, 1830)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ortalis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 22 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. canicollis (Chaco Chachalaca) · O. canicollis canicollis (Chaco Chachalaca) · O. cinereiceps (Gray-Headed Chacalaca) · O. columbiana (Colombian Chachalaca) · O. erythroptera (Rufous-Headed Chachalaca) · O. garrula (Chestnut-Winged Chachalaca) · O. guttata (Speckled Chachalaca) · O. leucogastra (White-Bellied Chachalaca) · O. motmot (Variable Chachalaca) · O. motmot motmot (Variable Chachalaca) · O. poliocephala (Rufous-Bellied Chachalaca) · O. poliocephala poliocephala (West Mexican Chachalaca) · O. ruficauda (Rufous-Vented Chachalaca) · O. ruficauda ruficauda (Rufous-Tipped Chachalaca) · O. ruficauda ruficrissa (Rufous-Vented Chachalaca) · (Buff-Browed Chachalaca) · O. vetula (Eastern Chachalaca) · O. vetula deschauenseei (Utila Chachalaca) · O. vetula mccalli (Plain Chachalaca) · O. vetula vetula (Plain Chachalaca) · (Rufous Bellied Chachalaca) · O. wagleri wagleri (Rufous-Bellied Chachalaca)

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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Ortalis vetula. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11986
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175716
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13484392
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175716
• IUCN ID: 228785
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNLB01020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177953

Footnotes

1. Mean = 34.660 meters (113.714 feet), Standard Deviation = 47.230 based on 117 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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