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Ptilotula ornata (Yellow-plumed Honeyeater)

Synonyms: Lichenostomus ornatus; Meliphaga ornata; Ptilotis ornatus

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-plumed honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is endemic to Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The yellow-plumed honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus but was moved to Ptilotula after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2011 showed that the original genus was polyphyletic.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.31661
EDGE Score: 2.11825
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  40 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Mating Display [1]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [1]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fitzgerald River National Park II 732417 Western Australia, Australia
Hattah-Kulkyne NP and Murray-Kulkyne Park National Park II 122831 Victoria, Australia
Riverland Biosphere Reserve Ia 1490891 South Australia, Australia
Stirling Range National Park II 281371 Western Australia, Australia
Yathong Nature Reserve Ia 270264 New South Wales, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Enchylaena tomentosa (Barrier Saltbush)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Climacteris affinis (White-browed Treecreeper)1
Dromaius novaehollandiae (Emu)1
Psephotus varius (Mulga Parrot)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 3Jetz 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
♦ 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.
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