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Cracticus mentalis (Black-backed Butcherbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-backed butcherbird (Cracticus mentalis) is a species of bird in the family Artamidae.It is found in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and northern Queensland in Australia.
View Wikipedia Record: Cracticus mentalis

Infraspecies

Cracticus mentalis kempi
Cracticus mentalis mentalis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.23148
EDGE Score: 2.10797
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  77 grams
Birth Weight [2]  7.2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  70 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  60 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Carpentaria tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southeastern Papuan rain forests Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Trans Fly savanna and grasslands Indonesia, Papua New Guinea Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Higgins, PJ, Peter, JM and Cowling, SJ. (eds), (2006) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Volume 7: Boatbill to starlings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 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