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Psittacula echo (Mauritius Parakeet)

Synonyms: Alexandrinus echo; Palaeornis echo (homotypic); Psittacula eques echo (homotypic)

Attributes

Clutch Size [1]  3

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Mascarene forests France, Mauritius Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Macchabee-Bel Ombre Nature Reserve Biosphere Reserve 8881 Mauritius    

Prey / Diet

Ficus reflexa[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pteropus niger (greater mascarene flying fox)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jetz 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
♦ 2VERTEBRATE SEED DISPERSERS IN MAURITIUS: FRUIT TRAITS AND FRUIT TRAIT PREFERENCES, Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, Diploma thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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