World Species : Phoeniculus bollei (White-headed Wood Hoopoe)

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Phoeniculus bollei (White-headed Wood Hoopoe)

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Infraspecies

Phoeniculus bollei bollei (White-headed woodhoopoe)
Phoeniculus bollei jacksoni (Kikuyu white-headed woodhoopoe)
Phoeniculus bollei okuensis (White-headed woodhoopoe)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 17.6387

EDGE Score: 2.92524

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	56 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	6.9 grams
Female Weight ^[1]	49 grams
Male Weight ^[1]	63 grams
Weight Dimorphism ^[1]	28.6 %

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit ^[3]	10 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	80 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	10 %
Forages - Canopy ^[3]	50 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	20 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albertine Rift montane forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests	Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cameroonian Highlands forests	Cameroon, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Niger transition forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East African montane forests	Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guinean montane forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Niger Delta swamp forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian swamp forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Guinean lowland forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

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
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	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
♦ 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

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

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