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Urocolius macrourus (Blue-naped Mousebird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The blue-naped mousebird (Urocolius macrourus), also formerly called the blue-naped coly (Colius macrourus) is found in the wild in the drier regions of East Africa and is also a common pet bird. It is one of the remaining six species of Mousebirds. The term “mousebird” comes from its ability to move along the ground in a way that resembles the scurrying of a mouse.
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Infraspecies

Urocolius macrourus abyssinicus (Blue-naped mousebird)
Urocolius macrourus griseogularis (Kivu blue-naped mousebird)
Urocolius macrourus laeneni (Blue-naped mousebird)
Urocolius macrourus macrourus (Blue-naped mousebird)
Urocolius macrourus massaicus (Blue-naped mousebird)
Urocolius macrourus pulcher (Blue-naped mousebird)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
23
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
47
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 44.627
EDGE Score: 3.8205
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  50 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2.3 grams
Diet [3]  Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  70 %
Diet - Plants [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Forages - Understory [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Fledging [1]  19 days
Incubation [1]  13 days
Maximum Longevity [2]  12 years
Female Maturity [1]  0 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No

Prey / Diet

Boscia senegalensis (Senegal boscia)[2]
Capparis decidua[2]
Grewia villosa (Mallow Raisin)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Ardeotis arabs (Arabian Bustard)1
Bubalornis albirostris (White-billed Buffalo Weaver)1
Crithagra sulphurata (Brimstone Canary)1
Lamprotornis chalybaeus (Greater Blue-eared Starling)1
Tockus erythrorhynchus (Red-billed Hornbill)1

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
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ 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
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