World Species : Psephotus varius (Mulga Parrot)

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Psephotus varius (Mulga Parrot)

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.14628

EDGE Score: 1.81585

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	61 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	4.5 grams

Diet ^[3]	Granivore
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	100 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	50 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	50 %

Clutch Size ^[5]	5
Fledging ^[1]	28 days
Incubation ^[4]	19 days
Mating Display ^[2]	Ground display
Mating System ^[2]	Monogamy
Maximum Longevity ^[6]	12 years

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Currawinya Lakes National Park	II	372252	Queensland, Australia
Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park	II	122831	Victoria, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve	Ia	1490891	South Australia, Australia
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park	II	332429	Northern Territory, Australia
Yathong Nature Reserve	Ia	270264	New South Wales, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Southwest Australia	Australia	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Ascaridia platyceri	^[7]
Forficuloecus banksi	^[7]
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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan 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
♦ ²Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ ³Hamish 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Jetz 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
♦ ⁶de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ⁷Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19

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

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