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Elaenia frantzii (Mountain Elaenia)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mountain Elaenia, Elaenia frantzii, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds in highlands from Guatemala to Colombia and western Venezuela. The scientific name celebrates the German physician and naturalist, Alexander von Frantzius. This tyrant flycatcher is 14-15 cm long and weighs 17-20 g. The upperparts are dull olive, with a narrow white eye ring. The wings are dusky with narrow yellow feather edges and two off-white wing bars.
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Infraspecies

Elaenia frantzii browni
Elaenia frantzii frantzii
Elaenia frantzii pudica
Elaenia frantzii ultima

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19.6 grams
Clutch Size [2]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Map Climate Land
Use
Cauca Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central American pine-oak forests Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests
Cordillera La Costa montane forests Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cordillera Oriental montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern Andean montane forests Colombia, Ecuador Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Santa Marta montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Talamancan montane forests Costa Rica, Panama Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Venezuelan Andes montane forests Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Cerro Verde National Park   El Salvador        
La Amistad International Park National Park II 541617 Panama, Costa Rica  
Macarao National Park II 44345 Venezuela  
Montecristo National Park IV 9237 El Salvador  
Parque Nacional Guaramacal National Park II 62675 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Henri Pittier National Park 218030 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Sierra de San Luis National Park II 50473 Venezuela  
Parque Nacional Yacambu National Park II 43025 Venezuela  
Proyecto Ecologico Quetzal   Guatemala      
Reserva Natural Tambito   Colombia        
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (incl. Tayrona NP) National Park II 1031303 Colombia  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website Map
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Citharexylum mocinni[3]
Ficus pertusa[4]
Freziera candicans[5]
Fuchsia paniculata (shrubby fuchsia)[5]
Monnina xalapensis[5]
Viburnum costaricanum[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Alouatta pigra (Mexican black howler monkey)1
Artibeus jamaicensis (Jamaican fruit-eating bat)1
Artibeus lituratus (great fruit-eating bat)1
Artibeus toltecus (Toltec fruit-eating bat)1
Attila spadiceus (Bright-rumped Attila)1
Aulacorhynchus prasinus (Emerald Toucanet)2
Brotogeris jugularis (Orange-chinned Parakeet)1
Carduelis xanthogastra (Yellow-bellied Siskin)1
Catharus aurantiirostris (Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush)1
Catharus gracilirostris (Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush)2
Catharus mexicanus (Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush)1
Cebus albifrons (white-fronted capuchin)1
Cebus apella (brown capuchin)1
Chiroxiphia linearis (Long-tailed Manakin)1
Chlorophanes spiza (Green Honeycreeper)1
Chlorophonia callophrys (Golden-browed Chlorophonia)1
Chlorophonia cyanea (Blue-naped Chlorophonia)1
Chlorophonia occipitalis (Blue-crowned Chlorophonia)1
Chlorospingus ophthalmicus (Common Bush-Tanager)1
Chlorospingus pileatus (Sooty-capped Bush-Tanager)1
Cotinga amabilis (Lovely Cotinga)1
Cyanerpes cyaneus (Red-legged Honeycreeper)1
Cyanocorax morio (Brown Jay)1
Dacnis lineata (Black-faced Dacnis)1
Dacnis venusta (Scarlet-thighed Dacnis)1
Dives dives (Melodious Blackbird)1
Dryocopus lineatus (Lineated Woodpecker)1
Elaenia flavogaster (Yellow-bellied Elaenia)1
Empidonax atriceps (Black-capped Flycatcher)1
Euphonia affinis (Scrub Euphonia)1
Euphonia hirundinacea (Yellow-throated Euphonia)1
Euphonia laniirostris (Thick-billed Euphonia)1
Euphonia luteicapilla (Yellow-crowned Euphonia)1
Euphonia minuta (White-vented Euphonia)1
Euphonia xanthogaster (Orange-bellied Euphonia)1
Icterus galbula (Northern Oriole)1
Icterus gularis (Altamira Oriole)1
Lepidothrix coronata (Blue-crowned Manakin)1
Melanerpes hoffmannii (Hoffmann's Woodpecker)1
Melanerpes pygmaeus (Yucatan Woodpecker)1
Mionectes oleagineus (Ochre-bellied Flycatcher)1
Momotus momota (Blue-crowned Motmot)1
Myadestes melanops (Black-faced Solitaire)2
Myiarchus tuberculifer (Dusky-capped Flycatcher)1
Myiodynastes luteiventris (Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher)1
Myiopagis gaimardii (Forest Elaenia)1
Myiozetetes similis (Social Flycatcher)1
Oreophasis derbianus (Horned Guan)1
Patagioenas plumbea (Plumbeous Pigeon)1
Patagioenas subvinacea (Ruddy Pigeon)1
Pharomachrus mocinno (Resplendent Quetzal)1
Pheucticus ludovicianus (Rose-breasted Grosbeak)1
Pipra chloromeros (Round-tailed Manakin)1
Procnias tricarunculatus (Three-wattled Bellbird)1
Psarocolius decumanus (Crested Oropendola)1
Pselliophorus tibialis (Yellow-thighed Finch)1
Pteroglossus torquatus (Collared Aracari)1
Ptilogonys caudatus (Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher)4
Ptilogonys cinereus (Gray Silky-flycatcher)1
Pyrrhura hoffmanni (Sulphur-winged Parakeet)1
Pyrrhura picta (Painted Parakeet)1
Querula purpurata (Purple-throated Fruitcrow)1
Ramphastos sulfuratus (Keel-billed Toucan)1
Saimiri sciureus (South American squirrel monkey)1
Saltator maximus (Buff-throated Saltator)1
Tangara chilensis (Paradise Tanager)1
Tangara mexicana (Turquoise Tanager)1
Thraupis episcopus (Blue-grey Tanager)1
Tityra semifasciata (Masked Tityra)1
Trogon citreolus (Citreoline Trogon)1
Trogon collaris (Collared Trogon)1
Trogon melanurus (Black-tailed Trogon)1
Turdus albicollis (White-necked Thrush)1
Turdus assimilis (White-throated Thrush)1
Turdus grayi (Clay-colored Thrush)3
Turdus ignobilis (Black-billed Thrush)1
Turdus nigrescens (Sooty Thrush)3
Turdus plebejus (Mountain Thrush)5
Tyrannus dominicensis (Grey Kingbird)1
Tyrannus savana (Fork-tailed Flycatcher)1
Vireo olivaceus (Red-eyed Vireo)1

Range Map

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Citations

Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 29-Nov-2006, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1SalvaNATURA - Programa de Monitoreo de Aves ♦ 2Jetz 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 ♦ 3LIFE HISTORY OF THE LONG-TAILED SILKY-FLYCATCHER, WITH NOTES ON RELATED SPECIES, ALEXANDER F. SKUTCH, The Auk, 82: 375-426. July, 1965 ♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572 ♦ 5Frugivorous Birds, Habitat Preference and Seed Dispersal in a Fragmented Costa Rican Montane Oak Forest Landscape, J.J.A.M. Wilms and M. Kappelle, Ecological Studies Vol 185, pp. 309-324
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder
Protected Areas provided by Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International
Images provided by Google Image Search
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Range map provided by Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2007. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 3.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Data provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.
Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access