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Megalurus timoriensis (Tawny Grassbird)

Synonyms: Cincloramphus timoriensis (homotypic); Cincloramphus timoriensis timoriensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The tawny grassbird (Megalurus timoriensis) is a songbird species of the grass- and bush-warbler family (Locustellidae). It was formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines.
View Wikipedia Record: Megalurus timoriensis

Infraspecies

Megalurus timoriensis alisteri
Megalurus timoriensis alopex
Megalurus timoriensis alpinus
Megalurus timoriensis amboinensis
Megalurus timoriensis celebensis
Megalurus timoriensis crex
Megalurus timoriensis harterti
Megalurus timoriensis inquirendus
Megalurus timoriensis interscapularis
Megalurus timoriensis macrurus
Megalurus timoriensis mayri
Megalurus timoriensis mindorensis
Megalurus timoriensis montanus
Megalurus timoriensis muscalis
Megalurus timoriensis stresemanni
Megalurus timoriensis timoriensis
Megalurus timoriensis tweeddalei
Megalurus timoriensis wahgiensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.62538
EDGE Score: 2.03148
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  18.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  50 %
Clutch Size [4]  3
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kooragang Nature Reserve IV 8300 New South Wales, Australia  
Lore Lindu National Park II 577959 Sulawesi, Indonesia  
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Philippines Philippines No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus[5]

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
♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 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
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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