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Astrapia rothschildi (Huon Astrapia)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Huon astrapia (Astrapia rothschildi) is a species of bird-of-paradise. This little known bird-of-paradise is distributed and endemic to the mountain forests of Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. Its diet consists mainly of fruits and seeds. The scientific name commemorates the British ornithologist Walter Rothschild. A common species in its limited habitat range, the Huon astrapia is evaluated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It is listed on Appendix II of CITES.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.24677
EDGE Score: 1.65761
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  182 grams
Female Weight [3]  159 grams
Male Weight [3]  207 grams
Weight Dimorphism [3]  30.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Clutch Size [4]  1

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Range sub-alpine grasslands Indonesia, Papua New Guinea Australasia Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Huon Peninsula montane rain forests Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Prey / Diet

Ficus hesperidiiformis[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Psittrichas fulgidus (Pesquet's Parrot)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
♦ 3Frith, CB and BM Beehler. 1998. The Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
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