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Pyrrhula nipalensis (Brown Bullfinch)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown bullfinch (Pyrrhula nipalensis) is a species of bird in the true finch (or Fringillidae) family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The brown bullfinch is a relatively small 16.5 cm (6.5 in) bird with a grayish head, nape, and breast. Its diet consists of nuts and native conifers. In Bhutan or Vietnam, it may be seen in a pair or a group. Little is known about this species.
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Infraspecies

Pyrrhula nipalensis nipalensis
Pyrrhula nipalensis ricketti
Pyrrhula nipalensis uchidae
Pyrrhula nipalensis uchidai
Pyrrhula nipalensis victoriae
Pyrrhula nipalensis waterstradti (Malay Bullfinch)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.07824
EDGE Score: 1.95703
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  25 grams
Female Weight [3]  24 grams
Diet [2]  Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [4]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  
Great Himalayan National Park II 184040 Himachal Pradesh, India
Kanawar Sanctuary IV 19991 Himachal Pradesh, India  
Krau Wildlife Reserve IV 149823 Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia  
Taman Negara National Park II 1122273 Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia  

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
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 4Jetz 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
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