Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Pycnonotidae > Hypsipetes > Hypsipetes crassirostrisHypsipetes crassirostris (Seychelles Bulbul)The Seychelles bulbul (Hypsipetes crassirostris) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds. The species is related to the Grand Comoro bulbul and the Moheli bulbul. It is a common endemic species of the Seychelles, breeding on Mahé, Praslin, La Digue and Silhouette as well as some smaller islands. The Seychelles bulbul is social, living in pairs, family groups or small flocks in forest and woodland from the sea to the mountains on granitic mountains. The species is omnivorous, taking fruit, flowers, eggs, and insects gleaned from foliage or hawked during short flights. They are very aggressive towards other birds species, chasing away birds as large as green-backed herons from areas that they are feeding in. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.17691 EDGE Score: 1.64421 |
Adult Weight [1] | 80 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Herbivore | Diet - Endothermic [2] | 20 % | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | Diet - Nectar [2] | 10 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 50 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 50 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 15 days |
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Granitic Seychelles forests |
Seychelles |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Cheke, AS and Jones, CG 1987. Measurements and weights of the surviving endemic birds of the Mascarenes and their eggs. In Diamond. AW (ed.). Studies of Mascarene Island birds, pp. 403-422. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press ♦ 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. 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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