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Platycercus caledonicus (Green Rosella)

Synonyms: Platycerus caledonicus

Wikipedia Abstract

The green rosella or Tasmanian rosella (Platycercus caledonicus) is endemic to Tasmania and Bass Strait islands. At 37 cm (14.5 in) long it is the largest species of the rosella genus, Platycercus. The male and female are generally similar in plumage, being predominantly black, green, and yellow in colour with a red band above the beak and blue cheeks; however, some females have red-orange colouration on the front of their necks. Its diet is composed of seeds, fruit, berries and flowers, as well as insects and insect larvae.
View Wikipedia Record: Platycercus caledonicus

Infraspecies

Platycercus caledonicus brownii
Platycercus caledonicus caledonicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.61389
EDGE Score: 1.52907
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  133 grams
Birth Weight [2]  8.8 grams
Female Weight [4]  118 grams
Male Weight [4]  149 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  26.3 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  40 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  33 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  33 %
Forages - Understory [3]  33 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Fledging [1]  35 days
Incubation [5]  19 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Snout to Vent Length [1]  14 inches (35 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  0 years 12 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Tasmanian Central Highland forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Tasmanian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Tasmanian temperate rain forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park 1104012 Tasmania, Australia  
Lavinia Nature Reserve State Reserve II 17390 Tasmania, Australia    
Maria Island National Park II 28488 Tasmania, Australia
Southwest National Park II 1531400 Tasmania, Australia
Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site 3478040 Tasmania, Australia      

Prey / Diet

Acacia dealbata (silver wattle)[5]
Crataegus heterophylla (Common Hawthorn)[7]
Senecio linearifolius (fireweed groundsel)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Platycercus eximius (Eastern rosella)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Forficuloecus forficula[8]
Heteromenopon psittacum[8]
Neopsittaconirmus circumfasciatus[8]

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 4Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 6Jetz 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
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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