Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Neophema > Neophema elegansNeophema elegans (Elegant Parrot)The elegant parrot (Neophema elegans) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.It is endemic to Australia. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.4107 EDGE Score: 1.85797 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 45 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Granivore | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 60 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 5 | | Fledging [1] | 30 days | | Incubation [3] | 18 days | | Mating Display [5] | Ground display | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 9 inches (23 cm) | | | Female Maturity [1] | 0 years 12 months |
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Coolgardie woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Esperance mallee |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Eyre and York mallee |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mount Lofty woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Naracoorte woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southeast Australia temperate forests |
Australia |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Southwest Australia savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southwest Australia woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Swan Coastal Plain Scrub and Woodlands |
Australia |
Australasia |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Tirari-Sturt stony desert |
Australia |
Australasia |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz 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 ♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 6Species 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 |
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
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