Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Estrildidae > Heteromunia > Heteromunia pectoralisHeteromunia pectoralis (Pictorella Munia; Pictorella Mannikin)The pictorella mannikin or pictorella munia (Heteromunia pectoralis) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. It belongs to the monotypic genus Heteromunia. It is endemic to Australia, where its natural habitats are dry savannah and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. In 2007, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature downgraded its assessment of the species from near threatened to least concern after large flocks of this species were found at several locations. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.48228 EDGE Score: 2.01254 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 15.5 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 70 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 5 | | Incubation [3] | 13 days |
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Species |
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Climate |
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Arnhem Land tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Cape York Peninsula tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Carpentaria tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Einasleigh upland savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Kimberly tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Mitchell grass downs |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Victoria Plains tropical savanna |
Australia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Purnululu National Park |
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604999 |
Western Australia, Australia |
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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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 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 |
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
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