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Newtonia brunneicauda (Common Newtonia)

Wikipedia Abstract

The common newtonia (Newtonia brunneicauda) is a species of bird in the Vangidae family.It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a small bird with greyish-brown upper parts, tannish-white underparts, a black bill and golden-yellow eyes.
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Infraspecies

Newtonia brunneicauda brunneicauda
Newtonia brunneicauda monticola

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.37409
EDGE Score: 2.12514
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  10.1 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  33 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  33 %
Forages - Understory [2]  33 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ravokatra, M., Wilmé, L. & Goodman, SM (2003). Bird weights. In The natural history of Madagascar: 1059–1063. Goodman, SM & Benstead, JP (Eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
♦ 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
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