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Columba vitiensis (Metallic Pigeon)

Wikipedia Abstract

The metallic pigeon, (Columba vitiensis) also known as white-throated pigeon is a medium-sized, up to 37 cm long, bird in the family Columbidae.
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Infraspecies

Columba vitiensis anthracina
Columba vitiensis castaneiceps (White-throated pigeon)
Columba vitiensis godmanae
Columba vitiensis griseogularis (White-throated wood pigeon)
Columba vitiensis halmaheira (White-throated pigeon)
Columba vitiensis hypoenochroa
Columba vitiensis leopoldi (White-throated pigeon)
Columba vitiensis metallica (White-throated pigeon)
Columba vitiensis vitiensis (White-throated wood pigeon)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.207
EDGE Score: 1.97505
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  353 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  1
Incubation [3]  18 days

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus bernaysii[5]
Ficus phaeosyce[5]
Ficus thonningii (Chinese banyan)[5]
Ficus wassa[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Tarburton, M. K. 1992. Weights of some birds from Fiji. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 112:34-36
♦ 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
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
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