Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Galliformes > Phasianidae > Afropavo > Afropavo congensisAfropavo congensis (Congo Peafowl; Congo Peacock)Synonyms: Afropava congensis The Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis), known as the mbulu by the Congolese, is a species of peafowl native to the Congo Basin. It is one of three extant species of peafowl, the other two being the Indian peafowl (originally of India and Sri Lanka) and the green peafowl (native to Burma and Indochina). |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 9.92691 EDGE Score: 3.77752 |
Adult Weight [1] | 2.824 lbs (1.281 kg) | Birth Weight [2] | 70 grams | Female Weight [1] | 2.522 lbs (1.144 kg) | Male Weight [1] | 3.126 lbs (1.418 kg) | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 24 % | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | Diet - Fruit [3] | 40 % | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 60 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 10 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 20 % | Forages - Ground [3] | 70 % | | Clutch Size [5] | 2 | Incubation [4] | 26 days | Mating Display [2] | Ground display |
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Species |
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Kahuzi-Biéga National Park |
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1647768 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Forests west of Lake Edward |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Itombwe Mountains |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lomako: Yekokora |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A3 |
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Maiko National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A3 |
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Okapi Faunal Reserve |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Salonga National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A3 |
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Location |
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Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions 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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