Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Monarchidae > Myiagra > Myiagra caledonicaMyiagra caledonica (Melanesian Flycatcher)The Melanesian flycatcher (Myiagra caledonica) is a species of bird in the monarch-flycatcher family Monarchidae. The species is sometimes known as the New Caledonian flycatcher. The species is found in New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands. The species is closely related to a number of species found from Australia to Samoa. There are five subspecies; the nominate race is found on New Caledonia, viridinitens in the Loyalty Islands, melanura in south Vanuatu, marianae in northern and central Vanuatu, and occidentalis in Rennell. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.61945 EDGE Score: 1.53028 |
Adult Weight [1] | 10.8 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | Incubation [3] | 18 days |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Aoupinié |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Bwa Opana |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Dent de Saint-Vincent |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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District de Wetr à Lifou |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A2 |
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Entre les monts Nakada et Do |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Entre les monts Rembaï et Canala |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Entre Table Unio et Farino |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Forêt Plate |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Goro Até et haute vallée de la rivière Tchamba |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Goro Jé et haute vallée de la rivière Amoa |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Grand Koum |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Hautes vallées des rivières Néaoua, Koua et Kouaoua |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Île d'Ouvéa |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Île de Yandé |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A2 |
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Île Walpole |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A2, A4ii |
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Massif des Lèvres |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Massif du Mé Kanin, Sphinx et Arago |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Massif du Panié |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Massifs du Grand Sud: entre le mont Humboldt et la rivière Bleue |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2, A4ii |
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Mé Maoya |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Pic Ningua |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Presqu'île de Pindaï |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A2, A4ii, A4iii |
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Prokoméo |
New Caledonia (to France) |
A1, A2 |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Ross, C.A. (1988). Weights of some New Caledonian birds. Bulletin of the British. Ornithologists' Club 108: 91-93 ♦ 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 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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