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Cyanoramphus auriceps (Yellow-crowned Parakeet)

Synonyms: Cyanoramphus auriceps auriceps; Psittacus auriceps (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps) is a species of parakeet endemic to the islands of New Zealand. The species is found across the main three islands of New Zealand, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura, as well as on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. It has declined due to predation from introduced species such as stoats, although unlike the red-crowned parakeet, it has not been extirpated from the mainland of New Zealand. Its Māori name is kākāriki.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyanoramphus auriceps

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.26365
EDGE Score: 1.87599
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  46 grams
Birth Weight [2]  4.4 grams
Female Weight [4]  41 grams
Male Weight [4]  51 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  24.4 %
Diet [3]  Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Plants [3]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [2]  6
Maximum Longevity [5]  9 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (24 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arthur's Pass National Park II 257008 South Island, New Zealand
Fiordland National Park II 3106115 New Zealand  
Mount Aspiring National Park II 473907 South Island, New Zealand
Te Wahipounamu—South West New Zealand World Heritage Site 6424740 New Zealand  
Tongariro National Park II 196174 North Island, New Zealand

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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
♦ 4Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 5de 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
♦ 6FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE RED-CROWNED PARAKEET (CYANORAMPHUS NOVAEZELANDIAE NOVAEZELANDIAE) AND YELLOW-CROWNED PARAKEET (C. AURICEPS AURICEPS) ON LITTLE BARRIER ISLAND, HAURAKI GULF, NEW ZEALAND, Terry C. Greene, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1998) 22(2): 161-171
♦ 7Comparative ecology of sympatric orange-fronted parakeets (Cyanoramphus malherbi) and yellow-crowned parakeets (C. auriceps), South Island, New Zealand, Jonathan C. Kearvell, James R. Young and Andrew D. Grant, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2002) 26(2): 139-148
♦ 8O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
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