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Caligavis chrysops (Yellow-faced Honeyeater)

Synonyms: Lichenostomus chrysops; Meliphaga chrysops

Infraspecies

Caligavis chrysops barroni
Caligavis chrysops chrysops
Caligavis chrysops samueli

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.41851
EDGE Score: 2.24268
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  16 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  40 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  14 days
Mating System [5]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Amyema miquelii (Box Mistletoe)[6]
Amyema pendula (drooping mistletoe)[6]
Grevillea diminuta[6]
Grevillea lanigera (Woolly Grevillea)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris (Eastern Spinebill)1
Philemon corniculatus (Noisy Friarbird)1
Platycercus elegans (Crimson Rosella)1
Polytelis swainsonii (Superb Parrot)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Haemoproteus ptilotis <Unverified Name>[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1A comparative analysis of some life-history traits between cooperatively and non-cooperatively breeding Australian passerines, ALDO POIANI and LARS SOMMER JERMIIN, Evolutionary Ecology, 1994, 8, 471-488
♦ 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
♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 6Food of some birds in eastern New South Wales: additions to Barker & Vestjens. Emu 93(3): 195–199
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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