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Ceyx pusillus (Little Kingfisher)

Synonyms: Alcedo pusilla; Ceyx pusilla pusilla

Wikipedia Abstract

The little kingfisher (Ceyx pusillus) is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. It is found in open forest, woodland, swamps and mangroves in Australia (northern Queensland and north Northern Territory), Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
View Wikipedia Record: Ceyx pusillus

Infraspecies

Ceyx pusillus aolae
Ceyx pusillus bougainvillei
Ceyx pusillus halli
Ceyx pusillus halmaherae
Ceyx pusillus laetior
Ceyx pusillus masauji
Ceyx pusillus pusillus
Ceyx pusillus ramsayi
Ceyx pusillus richardsi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.47212
EDGE Score: 2.13678
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  13 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  4

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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