Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Psittacula > Psittacula longicaudaPsittacula longicauda (Long-tailed Parakeet)Synonyms: Belocercus longicaudus (homotypic); Psittacus longicauda (homotypic) The long-tailed parakeet (Psittacula longicauda) is a parakeet endemic to the regions of Andaman islands, Nicobar islands, Sumatra, Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (including Singapore). It is allopatric with the congener, the Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri, except in the Andaman islands where they occur together. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.25365 EDGE Score: 2.52631 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 182 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | | Snout to Vent Length [4] | 17 inches (42 cm) |
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| Name |
IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Bako National Park |
II |
9035 |
Sarawak, Malaysia |
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Berbak National Park |
II |
423927 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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Betung Kerihun National Park |
II |
1945086 |
Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Bukit Tigah Puluh National Park |
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360578 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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Bukit Timah Nature Reserve |
II |
411 |
Singapore |
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Danau Sentarum National Park |
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347674 |
Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Gunung Leuser National Park |
II |
2203368 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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Gunung Palung National Park |
II |
271203 |
Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Kerinci Seblat National Park |
II |
3463483 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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Krau Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
149823 |
Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Kutai National Park |
II |
560076 |
East Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Pasoh Virgin Jungle Reserve |
Ia |
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Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve Nature Reserve |
IV |
325 |
Singapore |
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Tanjung Puting National Park |
II |
987160 |
Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Tasek Bera Forest Reserve |
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Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia |
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Ulu Temburong National Park |
II |
123279 |
Brunei Darussalam |
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Way Kambas National Park |
II |
306926 |
Sumatra, Indonesia |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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 ♦ 4Nathan 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 ♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
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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