Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Sturnidae > Sturnia > Sturnia erythropygiaSturnia erythropygia (White-headed Starling)Synonyms: Sturnus erythropygius The white-headed starling (Sturnia erythropygia), also known as the Andaman white-headed starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in wooded habitats on the Indian islands of the Andamans and Nicobars. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.85643 EDGE Score: 1.34974 |
| Diet [1] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore | | Diet - Fruit [1] | 40 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [1] | 30 % | | Diet - Nectar [1] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [1] | 50 % | | Forages - Understory [1] | 50 % |  | | Clutch Size [2] | 4 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Austin Strait |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Barangtang: Rafters Creek |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Car Nicobar |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Chainpur and Hanspuri |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Interview Island Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Jarawa Reserve (Middle Andaman and South Andaman) |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Kadakachang |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Landfall Island Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Little Andaman |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park (Wandoor National Park) |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Diavalo/Cuthbert Bay |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mount Harriett National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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North and South Sentinel |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Rani Jhansi Marine National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Saddle Peak National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Tilangchong, Camorta, Katchal, Nancowry, Trinkat |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Sundaland |
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Hamish 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 ♦ 2Jetz 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 ♦ 3"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
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
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