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Dicrurus leucophaeus (Ashy Drongo)

Wikipedia Abstract

The ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus) is a species of bird in the drongo family Dicruridae. It is found widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia with several populations that vary in the shade of grey, migration patterns and in the size or presence of a white patch around the eye.
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Infraspecies

Dicrurus leucophaeus batakensis
Dicrurus leucophaeus beavani
Dicrurus leucophaeus bondi
Dicrurus leucophaeus celaenus
Dicrurus leucophaeus hopwoodi
Dicrurus leucophaeus innexus
Dicrurus leucophaeus leucogenis
Dicrurus leucophaeus leucophaeus
Dicrurus leucophaeus longicaudatus
Dicrurus leucophaeus minimus
Dicrurus leucophaeus mouhoti
Dicrurus leucophaeus nigrescens
Dicrurus leucophaeus periophthalmicus
Dicrurus leucophaeus phaedrus
Dicrurus leucophaeus salangensis
Dicrurus leucophaeus siberu
Dicrurus leucophaeus stevensi
Dicrurus leucophaeus stigmatops

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.747
EDGE Score: 2.37463
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  38 grams
Female Weight [3]  42 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  30 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Incubation [4]  13 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lutztrema dicruri[6]
Platynosomum rutshurensis[6]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1ALI, S. & S.D. RIPLEY (1983): Handbook of Birds of India and Pakistan. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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