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Leptopoecile elegans (Crested Tit-warbler)

Wikipedia Abstract

The crested tit-warbler (Leptopoecile elegans) is a species of bird in the Aegithalidae family.It is found in China and possibly India.Its natural habitat is boreal forests. It generally has a red hint to it and a bit of blue on, or near, its wings. The tail is of an emerald green colour. Its name is often made fun of, though it is a wonderful creature of beauty.
View Wikipedia Record: Leptopoecile elegans

Infraspecies

Leptopoecile elegans elegans
Leptopoecile elegans meissneri

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.9361
EDGE Score: 2.70378
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

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
♦ 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
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