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Corythornis vintsioides vintsioides (Malagasy Kingfisher)

Synonyms: Alcedo vintsioides; Alcedo vintsioides vintsioides

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.43695
EDGE Score: 2.24463
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  30 %
Diet - Fish [2]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  10 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  4

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ravokatra, M., Wilmé, L. & Goodman, SM (2003). Bird weights. In The natural history of Madagascar: 1059–1063. Goodman, SM & Benstead, JP (Eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
♦ 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
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
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