World Species : Turdus poliocephalus (Island Thrush)

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Turdus poliocephalus (Island Thrush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The island thrush (Turdus poliocephalus) is a common forest bird in the thrush family. Almost 50 subspecies have been described, ranging from Taiwan, through South East Asia and Melanesia, to Samoa, exhibiting great differences in plumage. Several subspecies are threatened and three have already become extinct.

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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 4.63182

EDGE Score: 1.72843

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	75 grams
Female Weight ^[1]	85 grams
Male Weight ^[1]	65 grams
Weight Dimorphism ^[1]	30.8 %

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Scavenger ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Canopy ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	30 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	2
Incubation ^[3]	18 days
Snout to Vent Length ^[1]	9 inches (23 cm)

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Christmas Island National Park	II	21698	Christmas Island, Australia
Cibodas Biosphere Reserve (Gunung Gede-Pangrango)		142165	Java, Indonesia
Gunung Ambang Nature Reserve	Ia	30987	Sulawesi, Indonesia
Gunung Leuser National Park	II	2203368	Sumatra, Indonesia
Kerinci Seblat National Park	II	3463483	Sumatra, Indonesia

Biodiversity Hotspots

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Dasypsyllus gallinulae klossi	^[5]
Hoogstraalia turdella	^[5]

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
♦ 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
♦ ³del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁴Jetz 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
♦ ⁵International Flea Database

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