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Pellorneum ruficeps (Puff-throated Babbler)

Wikipedia Abstract

The puff-throated babbler or spotted babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps) is a species of passerine bird found in Asia. They are found in scrub and moist forest mainly in hilly regions. They forage in small groups on the forest floor, turning around leaf litter to find their prey and usually staying low in the undergrowth where they can be hard to spot. They however have loud and distinct calls, including a morning song, contact and alarm calls. It is the type species of the genus Pellorneum which may however currently include multiple lineages.
View Wikipedia Record: Pellorneum ruficeps

Infraspecies

Pellorneum ruficeps acrum
Pellorneum ruficeps chamelum
Pellorneum ruficeps chthonium
Pellorneum ruficeps deignani
Pellorneum ruficeps dilloni
Pellorneum ruficeps dusiti
Pellorneum ruficeps elbeli
Pellorneum ruficeps euroum
Pellorneum ruficeps hilarum
Pellorneum ruficeps indistinctum
Pellorneum ruficeps insularum
Pellorneum ruficeps mandellii
Pellorneum ruficeps minus
Pellorneum ruficeps olivaceum
Pellorneum ruficeps oreum
Pellorneum ruficeps pallidum
Pellorneum ruficeps pectorale
Pellorneum ruficeps punctatum
Pellorneum ruficeps ripleyi
Pellorneum ruficeps ruficeps
Pellorneum ruficeps shanense
Pellorneum ruficeps smithi
Pellorneum ruficeps stageri
Pellorneum ruficeps subochraceum
Pellorneum ruficeps ubonense
Pellorneum ruficeps victoriae
Pellorneum ruficeps vividum
Pellorneum ruficeps vocale

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.45957
EDGE Score: 1.86556
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  26 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  3
Fledging [3]  13 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka India, Sri Lanka No

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1ALI, S. & S.D. RIPLEY (1983): Handbook of Birds of India and Pakistan. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
♦ 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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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
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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