Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Seychelles Magpie Robin, seychelles magpie-robin, Seychelles thrush
Common Names in French:
Merle dyal des Seychelles
Common Names in German:
Seychellendajal
Common Names in Japanese:
セーシェルシキチョウ
Description
Habitat
Ecology:
Its original habitat
was mature
coastal forest
which provided a rich
feeding ground
in the leaf-litter4. Today it forages
in mature woodland on central plateaus
, plantations and vegetable
gardens. The preferred habitat structure includes a tall, closed
canopy
with a sparse understorey and ground
vegetation but abundant
leaf litter27. It feeds
predominantly on small
soil invertebrates
(c.95% of food items24, mostly
cockroaches27), but fruit, fish dropped by tree-nesting
terns22,24, vertebrates
, including skinks and geckos,
eggs
and human food scraps
are also taken24. Territories
are 1-2.5 ha, depending on the habitat quality, and are held by dominant
breeding pairs, which may tolerate the presence of related or unrelated
subordinate birds24. It breeds
year-round, with
a clutch-size of one23 (rarely two)24.
Incubation
takes 17-18 days24. Nests
are sited
in holes
in large trees
or in the crowns of coconut palms. Reintroduced
populations have suffered from a male-biased sex ratio
, largely because
of the higher mortality
of adult
females, the cause of which is unclear13.
The juveniles
of this long-lived species take between four weeks
and three months after fledging to reach independence24.
Birds that survive to adulthood have a life expectancy of 6-10 years,
though some are known to live for over 14 years, and for 17 years
in one case24.
[1].
List of Habitats:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.3 Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations
- 14.4 Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Parvorder:
Passerida
()
- Superfamily:
Muscicapoidea
()
- Family:
Muscicapidae
()
- Subfamily:
Saxicolinae
()
- Genus:
Copsychus
()
- Wagler, 1827
- Specific name:
sechellarum
- Newton, A 1865
- Scientific name: - Copsychus sechellarum Newton, 1865 Newton, A 1865
- Specific name:
sechellarum
- Newton, A 1865
- Genus:
Copsychus
(
- Subfamily:
Saxicolinae
(
- Family:
Muscicapidae
(
- Superfamily:
Muscicapoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Passerida
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Copsychus sechellarum Newton, 1865
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Copsychus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. albospecularis (Madagascar Magpie Robin) · C. cebuensis (Black Shama) · C. luzoniensis (White-Browed Shama) · C. luzoniensis luzoniensis (White-Browed Shama) · C. malabaricus (Common Shama Thrush) · C. malabaricus malabaricus (White-Rumped Shama) · C. niger (Cebu Black Shama) · C. niger cebuensis (Cebu Black Shama) · C. niger niger (White-Vented Shama) · C. pyrrhopygus (Rufous-Tailed Shama) · C. pyrropygus (Orange-Tailed Shama) · C. saularis (Dhyal Thrush) · C. saularis saularis (Oriental Magpie-Robin) · C. sechellarum (Seychelles Magpie Robin) · C. stricklandii (White-Crowned Shama)
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Further Reading
- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 61.
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 186, p. 186.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 68.
- Ecologically sensitive sites in Africa / Washington, DC, USA: World Bank, 1993. url p. 73.
- Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 22.
- IUCN Directory of Afrotropical Protected Areas IUCN, UNEP url p. 1016, p. 554.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 337, p. 477, p. 97.
- List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London: Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 220, p. 220, p. 213, p. 213, p. 181.
- Oil spill sensitivity of the western Indian Ocean islands: coastal data from the Comoros Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and the Seychelles WCMC url p. 101, p. 104, p. 24, p. 67.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 18 1895 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 514, p. 518.
- Revised list of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological society of London. 1872. London, Printed for the Society, [1872] url p. 125.
- The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book IUCN url p. 388.
- The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 2372.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 193, p. 191.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2005. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2008. Copsychus sechellarum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4882
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-202337
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14379954
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 202337
- IUCN ID: 201890
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B021
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3376
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2008. Copsychus sechellarum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. ... [back]
