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Rhipidura rufiventris (Northern Fantail; Timor Fantail)

Wikipedia Abstract

The northern fantail (Rhipidura rufiventris) is a species of bird in the Rhipiduridae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Rhipidura rufiventris

Infraspecies

Rhipidura rufiventris assimilis (Kai Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris bouruensis (Buru Fantail )
Rhipidura rufiventris cinerea (Seram Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris finitima
Rhipidura rufiventris finschii
Rhipidura rufiventris gigantea
Rhipidura rufiventris gularis
Rhipidura rufiventris hoedti (Banda Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris isura (Northern Fantail) (Attributes)
Rhipidura rufiventris kordensis (Biak Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris mussai
Rhipidura rufiventris nigromentalis
Rhipidura rufiventris niveiventris
Rhipidura rufiventris obiensis (Obi Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris pallidiceps
Rhipidura rufiventris rufiventris
Rhipidura rufiventris setosa
Rhipidura rufiventris tangensis
Rhipidura rufiventris tenkatei (Roti Fantail)
Rhipidura rufiventris vidua

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.26125
EDGE Score: 1.83438
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  12 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  50 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Mating System [4]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Higgins, PJ, Peter, JM and Cowling, SJ. (eds), (2006) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds, Volume 7: Boatbill to starlings. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 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
♦ 4Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
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