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Ploceus hypoxanthus (Asian Golden Weaver)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Asian golden weaver (Ploceus hypoxanthus) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and arable land.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Ploceus hypoxanthus

Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.12946
EDGE Score: 1.83401

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19 grams
Male Weight [1]  19 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  90 %
Forages - Aerial [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  10 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bung Boraphet Non-hunting Area No or Non Hunting Area III   Thailand  
Cat Tien National Park II 188942 Viet Nam
Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park II 39512 Thailand
Nong Nam Khao Non-hunting Area No or Non Hunting Area   Thailand      

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Echinochloa colonum (Jungle ricegrass)[4]
Eriochloa procera (Spring Grass)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pavo muticus (Green Peafowl)1
Ploceus benghalensis (Black-breasted Weaver)1
Ploceus philippinus (Baya Weaver)1

External References

Citations

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
3Jetz 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
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
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