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Aethopyga siparaja (Crimson Sunbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The crimson sunbird (Aethopyga siparaja) is a species of bird in the sunbird family which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding the young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings. Most species can take nectar by hovering like a hummingbird, but usually perch to feed most of the time. The Crimson sunbird is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India to Philippines. Two or three eggs are laid in a suspended nest in a tree. This species occurs in forest and cultivated areas.
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Infraspecies

Aethopyga siparaja beccarii
Aethopyga siparaja cara
Aethopyga siparaja flavostriata
Aethopyga siparaja heliogona
Aethopyga siparaja insularis
Aethopyga siparaja labecula
Aethopyga siparaja mangini
Aethopyga siparaja natunae
Aethopyga siparaja nicobarica
Aethopyga siparaja owstoni
Aethopyga siparaja seheriae
Aethopyga siparaja siparaja
Aethopyga siparaja tonkinensis
Aethopyga siparaja trangensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.1297
EDGE Score: 2.40962
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Male Weight [4]  6.7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  50 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  70 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Emblem of

Singapore

Prey / Diet

Malvaviscus arboreus (wax mallow)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amazilia rutila (Cinnamon Hummingbird)1

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.
♦ 4Cheke, 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
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