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Chloris ambigua (Black-headed Greenfinch)

Synonyms: Carduelis ambigua

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-headed greenfinch (Chloris ambigua) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, India, and Vietnam.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
View Wikipedia Record: Chloris ambigua

Infraspecies

Chloris ambigua ambigua
Chloris ambigua taylori

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.99012
EDGE Score: 1.38382
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [1]  100 %
Forages - Understory [1]  50 %
Forages - Ground [1]  50 %
Clutch Size [2]  4

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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
Japan Japan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
♦ 2Jetz 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
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