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Microhierax caerulescens (Collared Falconet)

Wikipedia Abstract

The collared falconet (Microhierax caerulescens) is a species of bird of prey in the Falconidae family. It is found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.Its natural habitat is temperate forests, often on the edges of broadleaf forest. It is 18cm long. Rapid wingbeats are interspersed with long glides. When perched, "rather shrikelike."
View Wikipedia Record: Microhierax caerulescens

Infraspecies

Microhierax caerulescens burmanicus
Microhierax caerulescens caerulescens

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.56473
EDGE Score: 2.14765
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  40 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  33 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  33 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  33 %
Clutch Size [3]  5
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [4]  58
Snout to Vent Length [5]  6 inches (16 cm)
Wing Span [1]  12 inches (.31 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Cecropis daurica (Red-rumped swallow)[1]
Charaxes bernardus (Tawny Rajah)[1]
Delichon nipalense (Nepal Martin)[1]
Eutropis carinata (Keeled Indian Mabuya)[1]
Hemiprocne coronata (Crested Treeswift)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Varanus bengalensis (Bengal Monitor)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ 4Buechley 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
♦ 5Nathan 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
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