Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Gruiformes > Rallidae > Sarothrura > Sarothrura ayresiSarothrura ayresi (White-winged Flufftail)Synonyms: Coturnicops ayresi; Ortygops ayresi The white-winged flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi) is a very rare African bird in the Sarothruridae family. Its scientific name honours South African ornithologist Thomas Ayres, who discovered it at Potchefstroom. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 12.058 EDGE Score: 4.64884 |
Adult Weight [1] | 32 grams | Male Weight [1] | 32 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 30 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 30 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 40 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 80 % | Forages - Water Surface [2] | 20 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [3] | 3 | Migration [4] | Intracontinental |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Bedford/Chatsworth |
South Africa |
A1, A4i |
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Berga floodplain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Franklin vlei |
South Africa |
A1, A4i |
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Grassland Biosphere Reserve (proposed) |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Greater Ingwangwana river |
South Africa |
A1 |
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Murphy's Rust |
South Africa |
A1, A4i |
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Penny Park |
South Africa |
A1 |
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Steenkampsberg |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii |
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Sululta plain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany |
Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland |
No |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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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