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Macheiramphus alcinus (Bat Hawk)

Synonyms: Machieramphus alcinus

Wikipedia Abstract

The bat hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus) is a raptor found in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia to New Guinea. It is named for its diet, which consists mainly of bats. It requires open space in which to hunt, but will live anywhere from dense rainforest to semi-arid veld.
View Wikipedia Record: Macheiramphus alcinus

Infraspecies

Macheiramphus alcinus alcinus
Macheiramphus alcinus anderssoni
Macheiramphus alcinus papuanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
15
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 30.703
EDGE Score: 3.45641
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.433 lbs (650 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  33 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  33 %
Forages - Understory [2]  33 %
Clutch Size [5]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  38 days
Incubation [4]  50 days
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [6]  66
Snout to Vent Length [3]  18 inches (46 cm)
Wing Span [4]  3.51 feet (1.07 m)

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 7Chaerephon pumilus, Sylvie Bouchard, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 574, pp. 1-6 (1998)
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Hipposideros caffer (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae), GENEVIEVE SPANJER WRIGHT, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 845:1–9 (2009)
♦ 10Lavia frons, Maarten J. Vonhof and Matina C. Kalcounis, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 614, pp. 1-4 (1999)
♦ 11Nycticeinops schlieffeni, Dave S. Johnston, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 798, pp. 1-4 (2006)
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