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Phoeniculus damarensis (Violet Wood Hoopoe)

Synonyms: Irrisor damarensis; Phoeniculus damarensis damarensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 14.1015
EDGE Score: 2.71479
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  81 grams
Female Weight [1]  77 grams
Male Weight [1]  86 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  11.7 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  3
Incubation [3]  21 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Daan Viljoen Game Park II 9924 Namibia  
Kora National Park II 409762 Kenya
Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biosphere Reserve 5696026 Tanzania  
Tsavo National Park II 3232255 Kenya
West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park VI 1448182 Namibia  

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
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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