Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Meliphagidae > Philemon > Philemon meyeriPhilemon meyeri (Meyer's Friarbird)The Meyer's friarbird (Philemon meyeri) is a species of bird in the Meliphagidae family.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The common name commemorates Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840-1911), a German anthropologist and ornithologist who collected in the Dutch East Indies. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.1305 EDGE Score: 2.21162 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 52 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 7.6 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 30 % | | Diet - Nectar [3] | 30 % | | Forages - Canopy [3] | 60 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 40 % | | | Mating System [2] | Monogamy |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Bell, HL (1982) . A bird community of lowland rainforest in New Guinea. I. Composition and Density of the Avifauna. Emu 82 , 24–41. ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish 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 |
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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