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Macropygia ruficeps (Little Cuckoo-Dove)

Wikipedia Abstract

The little cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae.It is found in Brunei, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
View Wikipedia Record: Macropygia ruficeps

Infraspecies

Macropygia ruficeps assimilis
Macropygia ruficeps engelbachi
Macropygia ruficeps malayana
Macropygia ruficeps nana
Macropygia ruficeps orientalis
Macropygia ruficeps ruficeps
Macropygia ruficeps simalurensis
Macropygia ruficeps sumatrana

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.48228
EDGE Score: 1.86907
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  82 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  30 %
Clutch Size [3]  1

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1McClure, H. E. 1964. Avian bionomics in Malaya: 1. The avifauna above 5000 feet altitude at Mount Brinchang, Pahang. Bird-Banding 35:141-183.
♦ 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