Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Nectariniidae > Aethopyga > Aethopyga christinae

Aethopyga christinae (Hainan Sunbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The fork-tailed sunbird (Aethopyga christinae) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in China, Hong Kong, Laos, and Vietnam.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. These small birds, with decurved bill, call a soft and frequent "zwink-zwink" and a metallic trill. The bird appears in the most commonly used postal stamp of Hong Kong.
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Infraspecies

Aethopyga christinae christinae
Aethopyga christinae latouchii (Fork-tailed Sunbird)
Aethopyga christinae sokolovi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.78803
EDGE Score: 2.37844
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.2 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Cheke, RA, Mann, CF & Allen, R. (2001). Sunbirds: a guide to the sunbirds, flowerpeckers, spiderhunters, and sugarbirds of the world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
♦ 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.
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