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Acanthiza chrysorrhoa (Yellow-rumped Thornbill)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-rumped thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa) is a species of passerine bird from the genus Acanthiza. The genus was once placed in the family Pardalotidae but that family was split and it is now in the family Acanthizidae. There are four subspecies of yellow-rumped thornbill. It is a small, brownish bird with a distinctive yellow rump and thin dark bill. It inhabits savannah, scrub and forests across most of Australia and eats insects. The species engages in cooperative breeding.
View Wikipedia Record: Acanthiza chrysorrhoa

Infraspecies

Acanthiza chrysorrhoa chrysorrhoa
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leachi
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa leighi
Acanthiza chrysorrhoa normantoni

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.7829
EDGE Score: 2.46665
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Incubation [3]  17 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  7 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Chenopodium album (lambsquarters goosefoot)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Alauda arvensis (Sky Lark)1
Carduelis carduelis (European Goldfinch)1
Chloris chloris (European Greenfinch)1
Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oncicola pomatostomi[6]

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
♦ 5Stepping stones of life: natal dispersal in the group-living but noncooperative speckled warbler, JANET L. GARDNER, ROBERT D. MAGRATH & HANNA KOKKO, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2003, 66, 521–530
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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
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