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Fringilla coelebs (Common Chaffinch)

Wikipedia Abstract

The common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), usually known simply as the chaffinch, is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts. The female is much duller in colouring but both sexes have two contrasting white wings-bars and white sides to the tail. The male bird has a strong voice and sings from exposed perches to attract a mate.
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Infraspecies

Fringilla coelebs africana
Fringilla coelebs alexandrovi
Fringilla coelebs bakeri
Fringilla coelebs balearica
Fringilla coelebs canariensis
Fringilla coelebs caucasica
Fringilla coelebs coelebs
Fringilla coelebs gengleri
Fringilla coelebs harterti
Fringilla coelebs maderensis
Fringilla coelebs moreletti
Fringilla coelebs ombriosa
Fringilla coelebs palmae
Fringilla coelebs sarda
Fringilla coelebs schiebeli
Fringilla coelebs solomkoi
Fringilla coelebs spodiogenys
Fringilla coelebs syriaca
Fringilla coelebs transcaspia
Fringilla coelebs transcaspica
Fringilla coelebs tyrrhenica

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.6636
EDGE Score: 2.53873
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  22 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2.2 grams
Female Weight [1]  21 grams
Male Weight [1]  24 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  14.3 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  60 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  30 %
Forages - Understory [3]  30 %
Forages - Ground [3]  40 %
Clutch Size [7]  5
Clutches / Year [6]  1
Fledging [4]  14 days
Incubation [6]  12 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Mating System [2]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  29 years
Speed [8]  28.633 MPH (12.8 m/s)
Wing Span [8]  10 inches (.26 m)
Female Maturity [5]  1 year
Male Maturity [5]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caucasus Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No
Japan Japan No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Providers

Shelter 
Abies clanbrassiliana (Norway spruce)[9]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
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♦ 6British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 7Jetz 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
♦ 8Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197
♦ 9Ecology of Commanster
♦ 10Predators, parasitoids and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality and body sizes in a natural food web J. Memmott N.D. Martinez J.E. Cohen Journal of Animal Ecology Volume 69, Issue 1 January 2000 Pages 1-15
♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 12O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
♦ 13Recruitment of a Mast-Fruiting, Bird-Dispersed Tree: Bridging Frugivore Activity and Seedling Establishment, Carlos M. Herrera, Pedro Jordano, Luis López-Soria, Juan A. Amat, Ecological Monographs, 64(3), 1994, pp. 315-344
♦ 14Farwig, Nina; Schabo, Dana G.; Albrecht, Jörg (2017), Data from: Trait-associated loss of frugivores in fragmented forest does not affect seed removal rates, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2784g
♦ 15Food habits of Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) in Bieszczady (south-eastern Poland), BARTŁOMIEJ NAJBAR, Vertebrate Zoology 57 (1) 2007, 73-77
♦ 16Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 17International Flea Database
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Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
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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