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Fulvetta ruficapilla (Spectacled Fulvetta)

Synonyms: Alcippe ruficapilla; Siva ruficapilla

Wikipedia Abstract

The spectacled fulvetta (Fulvetta ruficapilla) is a bird species in the family Sylviidae. Like the other typical fulvettas, it was long included in the Timaliidae genus Alcippe. It is found in China. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
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Infraspecies

Fulvetta ruficapilla ruficapilla
Fulvetta ruficapilla sordidior

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.62593
EDGE Score: 2.03155
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ailaoshan Nature Reserve V 332544 Yunnan, China  
Baimaxueshan Nature Reserve V 462837 Yunnan, China  
Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve V 1245925 Yunnan, China  
Nakai-Nam Theun National Biodiversity Conservation Area VI 878205 Laos  
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Nakai Plateau Laos A1, A3, A4i
Nakai-Nam Theun Laos A1, A2, A3
Phou Ahyon Laos A1, A2

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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