Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Cuculiformes > Cuculidae > Centropus > Centropus andamanensisCentropus andamanensis (Andaman Coucal)The Andaman coucal or brown coucal (Centropus andamanensis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found in the Andamans, Coco and Table Islands. It is sometimes treated as a subspecies of the greater coucal. It is found mainly in forested habitats and thickly covered gardens. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 11.4819 EDGE Score: 2.52428 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 281 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 323 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 239 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 35.1 % |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Countries |
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Species |
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Climate |
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Andaman Islands rain forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Barangtang: Rafters Creek |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Jarawa Reserve (Middle Andaman and South Andaman) |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Kadakachang |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Landfall Island Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Little Andaman |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park (Wandoor National Park) |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Diavalo/Cuthbert Bay |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Harriett National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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North and South Sentinel |
India |
A1, A2 |
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North Reef Island Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Rani Jhansi Marine National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Saddle Peak National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
Yes |
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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 ♦ 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 |
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
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