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Zosterops maderaspatanus (Madagascar White-eye)

Synonyms: Motacilla maderaspatana

Wikipedia Abstract

The Malagasy white-eye (Zosterops maderaspatanus) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is found in Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte, and Seychelles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Infraspecies

Zosterops maderaspatanus aldabrensis
Zosterops maderaspatanus anjuanensis
Zosterops maderaspatanus comorensis
Zosterops maderaspatanus maderaspatanus
Zosterops maderaspatanus menaiensis
Zosterops maderaspatanus voeltzkowi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
0
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.2359
EDGE Score: 0.804641
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.2 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  10 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  40 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles Yes

Prey / Diet

Ficus tiliifolia[4]
Rubus rosifolius (roseleaf bramble)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ravokatra, M., Wilmé, L. & Goodman, SM (2003). Bird weights. In The natural history of Madagascar: 1059–1063. Goodman, SM & Benstead, JP (Eds). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
♦ 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
♦ 4"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
♦ 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.
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