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Todiramphus chloris (Collared Kingfisher)

Synonyms: Alcedo spec; Halcyon chloris; Halcyon chloris chloris; Todirhamphus chloris; Todirhamphus chloris chloris

Wikipedia Abstract

The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known as the white-collared kingfisher or mangrove kingfisher. It has a wide range extending from the Red Sea across southern Asia to Polynesia. A number of subspecies and subspecies groups have been split from this species including the Pacific kingfisher, the islet kingfisher, the Torresian kingfisher, the Mariana kingfisher, and the Melanesian kingfisher.
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Infraspecies

Todiramphus chloris abyssinicus
Todiramphus chloris armstrongi (White-collared kingfisher)
Todiramphus chloris azelus
Todiramphus chloris chloris (White-collared kingfisher)
Todiramphus chloris chloropterus
Todiramphus chloris collaris
Todiramphus chloris davisoni
Todiramphus chloris humii (White-collared kingfisher)
Todiramphus chloris kalbaensis
Todiramphus chloris laubmannianus
Todiramphus chloris occipitalis
Todiramphus chloris palmeri (White-collared kingfisher)
Todiramphus chloris teraokai
Todiramphus chloris vidali

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
10
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.09519
EDGE Score: 1.40981
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  61 grams
Female Weight [1]  66 grams
Male Weight [1]  56 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  17.9 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fish [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  80 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  40 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  30 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [3]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  44 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 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
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
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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