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Ducula rufigaster (Purple-tailed Imperial Pigeon)

Wikipedia Abstract

The purple-tailed imperial pigeon (Ducula rufigaster) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Infraspecies

Ducula rufigaster rufigaster (Purple-tailed imperial pigeon)
Ducula rufigaster uropygialis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.97965
EDGE Score: 2.19496
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.102 lbs (500 g)
Diet [2]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %

Ecoregions

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
♦ 3"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
♦ 4Notes on Occurrence and Feeding of Birds at Crater Mountain Biological Research Station, Papua New Guinea, Andrew L. Mack and Debra D. Wright, EMU Vol. 96, 89-101, 1996
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