Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Prioniturus > Prioniturus platenaePrioniturus platenae (Blue-headed Racket-tail)The blue-headed racket-tail (Prioniturus platenae) also known as the Palawan racket-tail, is a parrot found in the western Philippines around Palawan. It is 27–28 cm long, basically green with a bright, light blue head, blue underwings (except for green coverts) and, in the male, bluish breast. The beak is bluish gray and iris is yellowish. It inhabits humid lowland forest in small flocks, but is threatened by habitat destruction and trapping for the cage-bird trade. It was formerly considered conspecific with blue-crowned racket-tail, P. discurus. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.18262 EDGE Score: 3.20804 |
Adult Weight [1] | 141 grams | Female Weight [1] | 158 grams | Male Weight [1] | 125 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 26.4 % | | Diet [2] | Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 100 % | | Clutch Size [1] | 3 |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Palawan rain forests |
Philippines |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Philippines |
Philippines |
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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 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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