World Species : Pterocles bicinctus (Double-banded Sandgrouse)

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Pterocles bicinctus (Double-banded Sandgrouse)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The double-banded sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus) is a species of ground living bird in the Pteroclididae family. It is found in arid parts of southern Africa.

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Infraspecies

Pterocles bicinctus ansorgei
Pterocles bicinctus bicinctus
Pterocles bicinctus multicolor

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 20.7493

EDGE Score: 3.07958

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	236 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	14 grams

Diet ^[3]	Granivore
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	100 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	70 %

Clutch Size ^[5]	2
Incubation ^[4]	23 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Etosha Pan halophytics	Namibia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands	Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kaokoveld desert	Namibia, Angola	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert	Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Southern Africa bushveld	Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Rift montane forest-grassland mosaic	Malawi, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian flooded grasslands	Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Zambezian halophytics	Mozambique, Botswana	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

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

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
♦ ²Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ ³Hamish 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Jetz 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

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