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Luscinia ruficeps (Rufous-headed Robin)

Synonyms: Erithacus ruficeps ruficeps; Larvivora ruficeps (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The rufous-headed robin (Larvivora ruficeps) is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in China and Malaysia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. The rufous-headed robin was previously placed in the genus Luscinia. A large molecular phylogenetic study published in 2010 found that Luscinia was not monophyletic. The genus was therefore split and several species including rufous-headed robin were moved to the reinstated genus Larvivora.
View Wikipedia Record: Luscinia ruficeps

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Luscinia ruficeps

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
43
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.69261
EDGE Score: 3.54877
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  4
Migration [4]  Intracontinental

Ecoregions

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Central Titiwangsa Range Malaysia A1, A2, A3
Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve China (mainland) A1, A2, A3
Taibai Shan Nature Reserve China (mainland) A1, A2, A3
Wanglang Nature Reserve China (mainland) A1, A2, A3

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
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