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Platycercus adscitus (Pale-headed Rosella)

Synonyms: Platycerus adscitus; Psittacus adscitus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The pale-headed rosella (Platycercus adscitus), is a broad-tailed parrot of the genus Platycercus native to northeastern Australia. It is a moderate-size parrot with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, scalloped black and gold back and pale blue underparts. Two subspecies are recognised, although some authorities consider it to be conspecific with the eastern rosella of southeastern Australia.
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Infraspecies

Platycercus adscitus adscitus (Pale-headed rosella)
Platycercus adscitus palliceps (Southern pale-headed rosella)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.91689
EDGE Score: 1.3653
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  111 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Fledging [1]  35 days
Incubation [3]  19 days
Snout to Vent Length [1]  12 inches (30 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Lamington National Park II 50970 Queensland, Australia
Sundown National Park II 30557 Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Casuarina cunninghamiana (river sheoak)[3]
Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river redgum)[3]
Melaleuca linariifolia (snow-in-summer)[3]
Xanthium spinosum (Spiny Cocklebur)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Entomyzon cyanotis (Blue-faced Honeyeater)1
Phascolarctos cinereus (Koala)1
Platycercus elegans (Crimson Rosella)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Forficuloecus forficula[5]

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
♦ 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.
♦ 4Jetz 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
♦ 5Species 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