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Dicaeum geelvinkianum (Red-capped Flowerpecker)

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-capped flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum) is a small passerine bird endemic to, and widespread within, New Guinea and adjacent islands. It has recently been split from the olive-crowned flowerpecker Dicaeum pectorale.
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Infraspecies

Dicaeum geelvinkianum albopunctatum
Dicaeum geelvinkianum centrale
Dicaeum geelvinkianum diversum
Dicaeum geelvinkianum geelvinkianum
Dicaeum geelvinkianum maforense
Dicaeum geelvinkianum misoriense
Dicaeum geelvinkianum obscurifrons
Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrigulare
Dicaeum geelvinkianum rubrocoronatum
Dicaeum geelvinkianum setekwa
Dicaeum geelvinkianum violaceum

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
14
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.28887
EDGE Score: 1.6656
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.8 grams
Male Weight [4]  7 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  60 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diamond, JM 1972. Avifauna of the eastern highlands of New Guinea. Publication of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 12, 1-438
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
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