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Geoffroyus heteroclitus (Singing Parrot; Song Parrot)

Wikipedia Abstract

The song parrot (Geoffroyus heteroclitus) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.It is found in the Bismarck Archipelago and on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, and in the Solomon Islands except Rennel. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Infraspecies

Geoffroyus heteroclitus heteroclitus (Singing parrot)
Geoffroyus heteroclitus hyacinthinus (Rennell Island singing parrot)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.80726
EDGE Score: 1.75911
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  170 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  90 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
New Britain-New Ireland lowland rain forests Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
New Britain-New Ireland montane rain forests Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Solomon Islands rain forests Solomon Islands Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gilliard, ET & LeCroy, M. (1967). Results of the 1958-1959 Gilliard New Britain Expedition: 4. Annotated list of birds of the Whiteman Mountains, New Britain. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135:173-216
♦ 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
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