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Talegalla fuscirostris (Black-billed Brushturkey)

Synonyms: Talegalla fuscirostis

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-billed brushturkey (Talegalla fuscirostris) is a species of bird in the Megapodiidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Talegalla fuscirostris

Infraspecies

Talegalla fuscirostris aruensis
Talegalla fuscirostris fuscirostris
Talegalla fuscirostris meyeri
Talegalla fuscirostris occidentis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.0172
EDGE Score: 2.89133
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.899 lbs (1.315 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

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
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