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Cuculus pallidus (pallid cuckoo)

Synonyms: Cacomantis pallidus (homotypic); Heteroscenes pallidus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The pallid cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus) is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.It is found in Australia, Christmas Island, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.Its egg weighs about 3.9g and it incubates for about 13 days.
View Wikipedia Record: Cuculus pallidus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.9558
EDGE Score: 3.04241
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  88 grams
Birth Weight [1]  3.9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [1]  1
Incubation [3]  13 days
Mating Display [1]  Ground display (mostly)

Ecoregions

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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.
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