Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Dendropicos > Dendropicos stierlingiDendropicos stierlingi (Stierling's Woodpecker)The Stierling's woodpecker (Dendropicos stierlingi) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.Its natural habitat is tropical dry forests in the Eastern Miombo woodlands ecoregion.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.04729 EDGE Score: 2.0912 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 28 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Eastern Miombo woodlands |
Tanzania, Mozambique |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Southern Miombo woodlands |
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Dzalanyama Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A3 |
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Furancungo woodlands |
Mozambique |
A1, A3 |
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Katavi National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Kilombero Valley |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Liwonde Hills Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mangochi Mountain Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Namuli |
Mozambique |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Namizimu Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Njesi plateau |
Mozambique |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Selous Game Reserve |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Ugalla River Game Reserve |
Tanzania |
A1, A4i |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 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 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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