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Turdus chrysolaus (Brown-headed Thrush)

Synonyms: Turdus pallidus chrysolaus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The brown-headed thrush (Turdus chrysolaus), sometimes known as the brown thrush, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
View Wikipedia Record: Turdus chrysolaus

Infraspecies

Turdus chrysolaus chrysolaus
Turdus chrysolaus orii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.81735
EDGE Score: 1.33956
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  65 grams
Female Weight [3]  66 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  30 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  25 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  25 %
Forages - Understory [2]  25 %
Forages - Ground [2]  25 %
Clutch Size [5]  3
Incubation [4]  13 days
Migration [6]  Intracontinental
Snout to Vent Length [3]  9 inches (24 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Azumayama Forest Forest Ecosystem Reserve IV   Fukushima, Japan  
Shiga Highland Biosphere Reserve 32124 Honshu, Japan  
Yakushima Island Biosphere Reserve   Japan    
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Japan Japan No
Philippines Philippines No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Brachylaima syrmatici[7]
Euamphimerus nipponicus[7]
Sphaerirostris turdi[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Morphological Characters of Bird Species in Taiwan, Hau-Jie Shiu, Tzung-Su Ding, Jia-En Sheu, Ruey-Shing Lin, Chau-Nien Koh, and Pei-Fen Lee, Taiwania, 50(2): 80-92, 2005
♦ 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
♦ 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
♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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