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Cyanoramphus malherbi (Malherbe's parakeet)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Malherbe's parakeet or orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) is a small parrot endemic to New Zealand. In New Zealand it is commonly known as the Orange-fronted Parakeet, a name it shares with a species from Central America, while in the rest of the world it's known as Malherbe's parakeet. The species name honours the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe.
View Wikipedia Record: Cyanoramphus malherbi

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Cyanoramphus malherbi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
49
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.12672
EDGE Score: 3.91257
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  47 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lake Sumner Conservation Park 261366 New Zealand      
Lochinvar Forest Stewardship Area 31835 New Zealand      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cyanoramphus auriceps (Yellow-crowned Parakeet)8
Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (New Zealand Pigeon)1
Nestor meridionalis (New Zealand Kaka)1
Nestor notabilis (Kea)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 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
♦ 3Comparative 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
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