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Melanocorypha mongolica (Mongolian Lark)

Synonyms: Alauda mongolica

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mongolian lark (Melanocorypha mongolica) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in China, Mongolia, and Russia.
View Wikipedia Record: Melanocorypha mongolica

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.73932
EDGE Score: 1.90796
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  54 grams
Female Weight [3]  50 grams
Male Weight [5]  59 grams
Weight Dimorphism [3]  20 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  4
Incubation [3]  15 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ceratophyllus chutsaensis[6]
Ceratophyllus garei[6]

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
♦ 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
♦ 5Piecocki, R. & A. Bolod (1972): Beiträge zur Avifauna der Mongolei. Teil II. Passeriformes: Ergebnisse der Mongolisch-Deutschen Biologischen Expeditionen seit 1962, Nr. 56. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 48: 41-175
♦ 6International Flea Database
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