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Rhipidura fuliginosa (New Zealand Fantail)

Synonyms: Muscicapa fuliginosa (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is a small insectivorous bird. A common fantail found in the South Island of New Zealand, also in the North Island as subspecies Rhipidura fuliginosa placabilis, the Chatham Islands as Rhipidura fuliginosa penita and formerly (now extinct) the Lord Howe Island as Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina. Also known as the pied fantail (pied morph only) or by its Maori name, Pīwakawaka, Tīwakawaka or Piwaiwaka. The species is considered by many to be conspecific (the same) as the grey fantail of Australia and New Caledonia, however due to differences in its calls some authorities now treat it as a separate species.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhipidura fuliginosa

Infraspecies

Rhipidura fuliginosa cervina
Rhipidura fuliginosa fuliginosa
Rhipidura fuliginosa penita
Rhipidura fuliginosa placabilis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.30163
EDGE Score: 1.84081
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.4 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  90 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  25 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  25 %
Forages - Understory [3]  25 %
Forages - Ground [3]  25 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Incubation [4]  14 days
Mating System [2]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
New Caledonia New Caledonia No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Ascarina lucida (Hutu)[6]
Coprosma foetidissima[6]
Coprosma rotundifolia[6]
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)[6]
Raukaua edgerleyi[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Nosopsyllus fasciatus (northern rat flea)[7]
Ricinus mugimaki[8]

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
♦ 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
♦ 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.
♦ 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
♦ 6O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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