Amaurospiza moesta

(Hartlaub, 1853) · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Passeriformes/Cardinalidae/Amaurospiza

At a glance

Occurrence records3 421

Data sources8

Biological traits22

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Amaurospiza moesta's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation8 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility3 421 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page5 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources22 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF3 421 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 1 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

01Narrative

The blackish-blue seedeater (Amaurospiza moesta) is a species of bird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAVONETEltonTraitsAmnioteDB

Size & morphology11

Beak depth6.8 mm

Beak length (culmen)12.5 mm

Beak length (nares)7.2 mm

Beak width5.8 mm

Body mass13.68 g

Hand-wing index14.9

Kipp's distance9.1 mm

Secondary length52.2 mm

Tail length53.9 mm

Tarsus length17.7 mm

Wing length61.6 mm

Diet & foraging7

Ground70 %

Invertebrate20 %

Plant other40 %

Seed40 %

Trophic levelherbivore

Trophic nicheGranivore

Understory30 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size864 092 km²

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Amaurospiza moesta has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

BINs1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Countries1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-5P

animal barcode

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type3 421 records

Wild obs. + sensor3 295

Museum / vouchered125

Other1

Origin

Native48

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO2 864 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy12% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 7>10 km 59

67 georeferenced · 3 228 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor3 295

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy4% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 2≤10 km 38>10 km 27

68 georeferenced · 57 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence125

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions8 of 9 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Los Angeles, US	43
Buenos Aires, AR	32
New Haven, US	26
Ann Arbor, US	8
Chicago, US	5
Philadelphia, US	4
Moore Laboratory of Zoology, Occidental Collegelocation not on record	3
	1
Berkeley, US	1

9 institutions · 123 of 125 vouchered records shown · 2 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Amaurospiza moesta was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Countries1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map1 country0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median18.0 °C 18.0–18.0

Seasonal swing summer↔winter5.90 °C

Max temp (day)21.9 °C

Min temp (night)13.6 °C

Precipitation132 mm/mo

Air humidity64.8 %

Moisture balance7.20 mm/mo

Vapour deficit729 Pa

Wind speed3.70 m/s

Cloud cover32.4 %

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 1 detection point · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Amaurospiza moesta

At a glance

Sources8 archives

Size & morphology11

Diet & foraging7

Habitat & environment4

At a glance

Record type3 421 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions8 of 9 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type3 421 records