Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Meliphagidae > Gavicalis > Gavicalis fasciogularis

Gavicalis fasciogularis (Mangrove Honeyeater)

Synonyms: Lichenostomus fasciogularis

Wikipedia Abstract

The mangrove honeyeater (Gavicalis fasciogularis) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. The species was once considered to be conspecific with the varied honeyeater, but it is now treated as a separate species. These two species form a superspecies with the singing honeyeater. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The mangrove honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus but was moved to Gavicalis after molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.3852
EDGE Score: 2.23913
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  27 grams
Female Weight [1]  25 grams
Male Weight [1]  29 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  16 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  40 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Brigalow tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park 85005126 Australia      
Great SandGreat Sandy y National Park II 546281 Queensland, Australia      

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Higgins, PJ, Peter, JM and Steele, WK (Eds). (2001). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Vol. 5, Tyrant-flycatchers to Chats. 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
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