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Cacomantis variolosus (Brush Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Cuculus variolosus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brush cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) is a member of the cuckoo family. The brush cuckoo is native to the east coast of Australia and northern New Guinea. It is grey-brown with a buff breast and its call is very familiar of the Australian bush.
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Infraspecies

Cacomantis variolosus addendus
Cacomantis variolosus aeruginosus (Moluccan Cuckoo)
Cacomantis variolosus blandus
Cacomantis variolosus dumetorum (Brush Cuckoo) (Attributes)
Cacomantis variolosus everetti
Cacomantis variolosus infaustus (Moluccan Cuckoo) (Attributes)
Cacomantis variolosus macrocercus
Cacomantis variolosus oreophilus
Cacomantis variolosus sepulcralis (Rusty-breasted Cuckoo) (Attributes)
Cacomantis variolosus tymbonomus
Cacomantis variolosus variolosus
Cacomantis variolosus virescens
Cacomantis variolosus websteri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
24
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.09162
EDGE Score: 2.31171
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  33 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [1]  1

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Philippines Philippines No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Ficus leucotricha (desert fig)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Audio

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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
♦ 3"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
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
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
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