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Eurystomus orientalis (Oriental Dollarbird; Dollarbird; Dollar Bird; Dollar Roller)

Wikipedia Abstract

The dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Oriental dollarbird or dollar roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago and India.
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Infraspecies

Eurystomus orientalis connectens
Eurystomus orientalis crassirostris
Eurystomus orientalis cyanocollis
Eurystomus orientalis gigas
Eurystomus orientalis irisi
Eurystomus orientalis laetior
Eurystomus orientalis oberholseri
Eurystomus orientalis orientalis (Dollar bird)
Eurystomus orientalis pacificus (Dollarbird) (Attributes)
Eurystomus orientalis solomonensis (Dollarbird) (Attributes)
Eurystomus orientalis waigiouensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.1418
EDGE Score: 2.64914
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  141 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Fledging [1]  25 days
Incubation [3]  18 days
Migration [5]  Intercontinental

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Predators

Ninox rufa (Rufous Boobook)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hadjelia truncata[7]
Haemoproteus coraciae <Unverified Name>[7]
Hymenolepis abundus <Unverified Name>[8]
Mosesia caprimulgi[8]
Pancreatrema disacetabulum[8]

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
♦ 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
♦ 3Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve
♦ 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
♦ 5Myers, 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
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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