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Climacteris affinis (White-browed Treecreeper)

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-browed treecreeper (Climacteris affinis) is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is endemic to Australia.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.6784
EDGE Score: 2.5399

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  21 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  20 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  18 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Currawinya Lakes National Park II 372252 Queensland, Australia
Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park II 122831 Victoria, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia
Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park II 332429 Northern Territory, Australia

Prey / Diet

Chenopodium curvispicatum[3]
Chenopodium spinescens[3]
Enchylaena tomentosa (Barrier Saltbush)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Dicaeum hirundinaceum (Mistletoebird)1
Dromaius novaehollandiae (Emu)1
Psephotus varius (Mulga Parrot)1
Ptilotula ornata (Yellow-plumed Honeyeater)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
3Conservation Ecology and Breeding Biology of the White-browed Treecreeper Climacteris affinis, James Radford, Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy of Deakin University, June 2002
4Jetz 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
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