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Tyto longimembris (Eastern Grass Owl)

Synonyms: Strix longimembris; Tyto longimembris oustaleti

Wikipedia Abstract

The eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris), or Australian grass owl is a species of owl in the Tytonidae family.It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Though some authorities consider this owl to be conspecific with the African grass owl, T. capensis, other consider it to be a valid species. They feed predominantly on small rodents.
View Wikipedia Record: Tyto longimembris

Infraspecies

Tyto longimembris amauronota
Tyto longimembris baliem
Tyto longimembris chinensis
Tyto longimembris longimembris
Tyto longimembris papuensis
Tyto longimembris pithecops

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.0407
EDGE Score: 2.40159
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [1]  100 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  5
Incubation [2]  31 days
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Raptor Research Conservation Priority [5]  79
Male Weight [4]  313 grams

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Addo Elephant National Park II 348463 Eastern Cape, South Africa
Anhui Shengjin Lake National Nature Reserve 82385 Anhui, China      
Golden Gate Highlands National Park II 28689 Free State, South Africa
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Apodemus agrarius (Striped field mouse)[6]
Bandicota indica (greater bandicoot rat)[6]
Mus caroli (Ryukyu mouse)[6]
Rattus losea (lesser rice-field rat)[6]

External References

Citations

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
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Higgins, PJ (Ed) (1999) Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic birds. Volume 4: Parrots to dollarbird. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 5Buechley ER, Santangeli A, Girardello M, et al. Global raptor research and conservation priorities: Tropical raptors fall prey to knowledge gaps. Divers Distrib. 2019;25:856–869. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12901
♦ 6Initial Investigation on the Diet of Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris) in Southern Taiwan, Wen-Loung Lin, Yin Wang and Hui-Yun Tseng, Taiwania, 52(1): 100-105, 2007
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