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Dicaeum hirundinaceum (Mistletoebird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum), also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia (though absent from Tasmania and the driest desert areas) and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea. The mistletoebird eats mainly the berries of the parasitic mistletoe and has adapted its digestive system to help spread the mistletoe seeds.
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Infraspecies

Dicaeum hirundinaceum fulgidum
Dicaeum hirundinaceum hirundinaceum
Dicaeum hirundinaceum ignicolle (Aru Flowerpecker)
Dicaeum hirundinaceum keiense (Pink-breasted Flowerpecker)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.73632
EDGE Score: 2.04593
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Incubation [4]  11 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Prey / Diet

Amyema cambagei (Needle-leaf Mistletoe)[4]
Chenopodium spinescens[4]
Diplocyclos palmatus[4]
Lycium ferocissimum (African Boxthorn)[4]
Solanum nigrum nigrum (European black nightshade)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris (Eastern Spinebill)1
Anthochaera phrygia (Regent Honeyeater)1
Climacteris affinis (White-browed Treecreeper)1
Glossopsitta pusilla (Little Lorikeet)1
Oriolus sagittatus (Olive-backed Oriole)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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 5Jetz 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