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Prionodura newtoniana (Golden Bowerbird)

Synonyms: Amblyornis newtonianus newtonianus

Infraspecies

Prionodura newtoniana fairfaxi
Prionodura newtoniana newtoniana

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
36
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 20.801
EDGE Score: 3.08195
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  77 grams
Birth Weight [2]  11.4 grams
Female Weight [4]  84 grams
Male Weight [4]  73 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  15.1 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  60 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  20 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  30 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  70 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Incubation [2]  22 days
Maximum Longevity [6]  23 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Brigalow tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mount Windsor National Park II 108282 Queensland, Australia  
Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site 2210160 Queensland, Australia    
Wooroonooran National Park II 283924 Queensland, Australia  

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
♦ 2"Nesting Biology of the Golden Bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana Endemic to Australian Upland Tropical Rainforest", Clifford B. Frith and Dawn W. Frith, Emu 98(4) 245 - 268 (1998)
♦ 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
♦ 4Frith CB, Frith DW (2004) The Bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6del 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
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