Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Climacteridae > Climacteris > Climacteris melanurus

Climacteris melanurus (Black-tailed Treecreeper)

Synonyms: Climacteris melanura; Climacteris melanura melanura

Wikipedia Abstract

The black-tailed treecreeper (Climacteris melanurus) is a species of bird in the Climacteridae family.It is endemic to north and northwestern Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Infraspecies

Climacteris melanurus melanurus
Climacteris melanurus wellsi (Chestnut-bellied Treecreeper)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.6919
EDGE Score: 2.54096
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  32 grams
Female Weight [3]  30 grams
Male Weight [3]  34 grams
Weight Dimorphism [3]  13.3 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  90 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  10 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  80 %
Forages - Understory [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  10 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Mating System [5]  Monogamy

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Prince Regent River Nature Reserve Ia 1428602 Western Australia, Australia  
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oncicola pomatostomi[6]

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
♦ 3Higgins, PJ, Peter, JM and Steele, WK (Eds). (2001). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Vol. 5, Tyrant-flycatchers to Chats. Oxford University Press, Melbourne
♦ 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
♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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