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Colius striatus (Speckled Mousebird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) is the largest species of mousebird, as well as one of the most common.
View Wikipedia Record: Colius striatus

Infraspecies

Colius striatus affinis (East Coast speckled mousebird)
Colius striatus berlepschi
Colius striatus cinerascens
Colius striatus congicus
Colius striatus hilgerti
Colius striatus integralis
Colius striatus jebelensis
Colius striatus kikuyensis
Colius striatus kiwuensis
Colius striatus leucophthalmus
Colius striatus leucotis
Colius striatus minor
Colius striatus mombassicus
Colius striatus nigricollis
Colius striatus rhodesiae
Colius striatus simulans
Colius striatus striatus (South African speckled mousebird)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
17
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
43
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 33.328
EDGE Score: 3.53596
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  55 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3.4 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Nectarivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  70 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Fledging [1]  18 days
Incubation [4]  14 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  11 years
Female Maturity [1]  0 years 12 months

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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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4Intrinsic aging-related mortality in birds, Robert E. Ricklefs, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 31: 103–111. Copenhagen 2000
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Response of avian nectarivores to the flowering of Aloe marlothii: a nectar oasis during dry South African winters, Craig T. Symes , Susan W. Nicolson and Andrew E. McKechnie, Journal of Ornithology Volume 149, Number 1, 13-22
♦ 8"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 9Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant-frugivore network differ among forest strata, Matthias Schleuning, Nico Blüthgen, Martina Flörchinger, Julius Braun, H. Martin Schaefer, and Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Ecology, in press.
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