Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Crithagra > Crithagra whytiiCrithagra whytii (Yellow-browed Seedeater)Synonyms: Serinus striolatus whytii; Serinus whytii The yellow-browed seedeater (Crithagra whytii) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. The yellow-browed seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the yellow-browed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.57013 EDGE Score: 1.51954 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 21 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 20 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 22 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 10 % |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [1] | 3 |
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Kitulo plateau |
Tanzania |
A1, A2 |
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Livingstone Mountains forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Rungwe |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Njombe forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyika National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyika National Park |
Malawi |
A2, A3 |
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South Viphya Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Umalila Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Uzumara Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A2, A3 |
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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 |
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
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