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Zosterops mayottensis (Mayotte White-eye; Chestnut-sided White-eye)

Synonyms: Zosterops maderaspatanus mayottensis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Mayotte white-eye or chestnut-sided white-eye (Zosterops mayottensis) is a species of bird in the Zosteropidae family. It is now found only on Mayotte in the Comoro Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Marianne white-eye formerly considered as subspecies of Mayotte white-eye occurred on Marianne and perhaps other islands in the Seychelles but is now extinct.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
3
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.56864
EDGE Score: 0.943375
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.9 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  40 %
Forages - Understory [2]  60 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Comoros forests Comoros Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests  

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Baie de Bouéni Mayotte (to France) A1, A2  
Hachiroungou Mayotte (to France) A1, A2  
Mlima Bénara Mayotte (to France) A1, A2  
Mlima Choungui and Sazilé Mayotte (to France) A1, A2  
Mlima Combani and Mlima Mtsapéré Mayotte (to France) A1, A2  

Biodiversity Hotspots

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

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Louette M (1988) Double invasions of birds on the Comoro Islands. Proceedings of the Sixth Pan-African Ornithological Congress, 77–86
♦ 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
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