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Lathamus discolor (Swift Parrot)

Synonyms: Psittacus discolor (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the winter. It is related to the rosellas, with the feeding habits of a lorikeet. It is the only member in the genus Lathamus.
View Wikipedia Record: Lathamus discolor

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Lathamus discolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
57
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.4852
EDGE Score: 4.42941
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Birth Weight [2]  6 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  80 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  60 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Fledging [1]  42 days
Incubation [4]  25 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Migration [6]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [1]  9 inches (24 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Grampians National Park II 416373 Victoria, Australia
Maria Island National Park II 28488 Tasmania, Australia
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ascaridia columbae[9]
Ascaridia platyceri[9]
Eomenopon greeni[9]
Forficuloecus forficula[9]

Range Map

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
♦ 4Species Profile and Threats Database, Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
♦ 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
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Winter habitat use by the endangered, migratory Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) in New South Wales, Debra L. Saunders and Robert Heinsohn, Emu, 2008, 108, 81–89
♦ 8Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (Tasmania)
♦ 9Species 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
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