Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Meliphagidae > Melidectes > Melidectes belfordiMelidectes belfordi (Belford's Honeyeater)Belford's melidectes (Melidectes belfordi), also known as Belford's honeyeater, is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate George Belford, the son of a Samoan chief, who collected natural history specimens for Sir William McGregor, the Lieutenant Governor of British New Guinea in the late nineteenth century. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.55802 EDGE Score: 1.71524 |
Adult Weight [1] | 74 grams | Female Weight [1] | 63 grams | Male Weight [1] | 85 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 34.9 % |  | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 60 % | Diet - Nectar [2] | 20 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 80 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 20 % |  | Mating System [3] | Monogamy |
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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 ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 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
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