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Sericulus chrysocephalus (Regent Bowerbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, sexually dimorphic bowerbird. The male bird is black with a golden orange-yellow crown, mantle and black-tipped wing feathers. It has yellow bill, black feet and yellow iris. The female is a brown bird with whitish or fawn markings, grey bill, black feet and crown. The name commemorates a prince regent of the United Kingdom. A rare natural intergeneric hybrid between the regent bowerbird and the satin bowerbird is known as Rawnsley's bowerbird.
View Wikipedia Record: Sericulus chrysocephalus

Infraspecies

Sericulus chrysocephalus chrysocephalus
Sericulus chrysocephalus rothschildi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
7
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
31
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 15.2627
EDGE Score: 2.78887
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  101 grams
Birth Weight [2]  13.8 grams
Female Weight [4]  110 grams
Male Weight [4]  90 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  22.2 %
Diet [3]  Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [3]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  50 %
Female Maturity [1]  3 years 11 months
Clutch Size [6]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Incubation [5]  19 days
Mating System [2]  Promiscuity
Maximum Longevity [5]  23 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Brigalow tropical savanna Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Australian temperate forests Australia Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Queensland tropical rain forests Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia
Great SandGreat Sandy y National Park II 546281 Queensland, Australia      
Lamington National Park II 50970 Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Ficus asperiuscula[7]
Ficus leucotricha (desert fig)[7]
Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay Fig)[7]
Ficus superba (Sea Fig)[7]
Ficus watkinsiana (Ficus watkinsiana)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Brueelia hectica[8]
Toxoplasma gondii[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
♦ 4Frith CB, Frith DW (2004) The Bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchidae. Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 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"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 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
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