Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Acrocephalidae > Acrocephalus > Acrocephalus luscinius

Acrocephalus luscinius (Nightingale Reed-warbler; Old World Reed Warbler)

Synonyms: Acrocephalus luscinia; Acrocephalus luscinius luscinius; Thryothorus luscinius (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The nightingale reed warbler (Acrocephalus luscinius) is a threatened song bird endemic to Guam. The Chamorro name for the bird is ga ‘kaliso. It has not been reported since the late 1960's and presumed extinct. The Pagan reed warbler, Aguiguan reed warbler, and Saipan reed warbler were once considered subspecies.
View Wikipedia Record: Acrocephalus luscinius

Endangered Species

Status: Extinct
View IUCN Record: Acrocephalus luscinius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
58
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.79649
EDGE Score: 4.52984
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  29.8 grams
Male Weight [3]  36 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Marianas tropical dry forests Micronesia Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests    

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Baker, RH 1951. The avifauna of Micronesia. Its origin, evolution, and distribution. University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History 3(1), 1-359.
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
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