Species: Pheucticus ludovicianus

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Species

Birds

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Cardinalidae

Genus

Pheucticus

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Source:
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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Picogordo Pecho Rosa - cardinal à poitrine rose

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Cardinalidae - Pheucticus - Regarded as conspecific with P. MELANOCEPHALUS by a few authors and constitutes a superspecies with it (AOU 1998).

Ecology and Life History

Migration

false - false - true - Migrates through West Indies. Usually arrives in the eastern U.S. and southern Canada in May (Terres 1980). Arrives in Costa Rica mainly mid-October (occasionally by early September), departs usually by mid-April (or as late as early May) (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Arrives in Colombia as early as mid-October but mainly present from December onward; departs by late April (Hilty and Brown 1986).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Eats seeds, fruits, buds, and flowers of trees; and insects (caterpillars, lepidopterans, grasshoppers, etc.) (Terres 1980).

Reproduction Comments

Eggs are laid mostly in May-June. Clutch size is 3-5. Incubation lasts 12-14 days, by both sexes. Young are tended by both parents, leave nest at 9-12 days, dependent on adults for about 3 weeks more. Male may feed fledglings while female renests.

Ecology Comments

In winter, in flocks of 3-6, rarely up to 20 (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Length

Weight

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-12-03

Global Status Last Changed

1996-12-03

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: northeastern British Columbia and southern Mackenzie to Nova Scotia, south to southern Alberta, northern North Dakota, eastern Nebraska, Oklahoma, southern Missouri, Indiana, northern Georgia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. NORTHERN WINTER: generally from central Mexico to northern South America (Colombia and northern Venezuela, more rarely to Ecuador, central Peru, southern Venezuela, Guyana [once]), occasionally north to U.S. Rare in West Indies.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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