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Poephila cincta (Black-throated Finch)

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-throated finch (Poephila cincta), or parson finch, is a species of estrildid finch found in grassy woodlands throughout north-east Australia from Cape York Peninsula to north-east New South Wales. It is declining and its habitat is threatened by development.
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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.60498
EDGE Score: 1.72365

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.9 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.3 grams
Female Weight [4]  12 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  80 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Clutch Size [6]  5
Fledging [4]  22 days
Incubation [5]  13 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Prey / Diet

Alloteropsis semialata[7]
Digitaria ciliaris (Henry's crabgrass)[5]
Stylosanthes humilis (Townsville stylo)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cryptosporidium galli[8]
Oncicola pomatostomi[9]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Hall, BP (Ed.) 1974. Birds of the Harold Hall Expeditions 1962-70. A report on the collections made for the British Museum (Natural History). Results of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions, 33
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
4Nathan 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
5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
6Jetz 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
7"Growth, seed production and effect of defoliation in an early flowering perennial grass, Alloteropsis semialata (Poaceae), on Cape York Peninsula, Australia", Gabriel M. Crowley and Stephen T. Garnett, Australian Journal of Botany 49(6) 735 - 743 (2001)
8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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