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Pterocles lichtensteinii (Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Lichtenstein's sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii) is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family, which is named after Martin Lichtenstein. They are nomadic, mostly nocturnal birds, which drink before dawn and after dusk.
View Wikipedia Record: Pterocles lichtensteinii

Infraspecies

Pterocles lichtensteinii arabicus
Pterocles lichtensteinii ingramsi
Pterocles lichtensteinii lichtensteinii
Pterocles lichtensteinii sukensis
Pterocles lichtensteinii targius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.4694
EDGE Score: 3.01893
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  229 grams
Birth Weight [2]  16 grams
Female Weight [1]  210 grams
Male Weight [1]  248 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  18.1 %
Diet [3]  Granivore
Diet - Seeds [3]  100 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  70 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Wing Span [5]  20 inches (.5 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Khawr Salalah Reserve IV 3091 Oman  
Mount Kulal Biosphere Reserve 1729738 Kenya  
Socotra Archipelago Biosphere Reserve 6626477 Yemen  

Important Bird Areas

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
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No

Prey / Diet

Asphodelus tenuifolius[5]
Vachellia flava (Salam)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pterocles coronatus (Crowned Sandgrouse)1
Pterocles senegallus (Spotted Sandgrouse)1

Range Map

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
♦ 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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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