Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Nectariniidae > Anthreptes > Anthreptes gabonicusAnthreptes gabonicus (Mangrove Sunbird; Mouse-brown Sunbird)The mangrove sunbird or mouse-brown sunbird (Anthreptes gabonicus) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.56961 EDGE Score: 2.14822 |
| Birth Weight [1] | 1.3 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests |
Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central African mangroves |
Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial, Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Afrotropic |
Mangroves |
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Cross-Niger transition forests |
Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests |
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Guinean forests |
Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Guinean mangroves |
Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire |
Afrotropic |
Mangroves |
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Niger Delta swamp forests |
Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Western Guinean lowland forests |
Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Akanda |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Akassa forests |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Azagny National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bao Bolon Wetland Reserve |
Gambia |
A4i, A4iii |
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Campo Ma'an complex |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cape Mount |
Liberia |
A3, A4i |
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Cestos: Senkwen |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Comoe National Park |
C |
A3 |
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Conkouati National Park |
Congo |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Cross River National Park: Oban Division |
Nigeria |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Delta du Saloum |
Senegal |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Dimonika Biosphere Reserve |
Congo |
A1, A3 |
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Gamba Protected Areas Complex |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Grebo |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ipassa Strict Nature Reserve |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lagoas de Cufada |
Guinea-Bissau |
A1, A3 |
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Lamto Ecological Research Station |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lofa-Gola-Mano Complex |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lopé Faunal Reserve |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lower Kouilou basin |
Congo |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Luki Forest Reserve |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A3 |
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Mafou |
Guinea |
A3 |
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Mbam Minkom: Kala |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mont Nlonako |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Cameroon and Mokoko-Onge |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ogooué delta and Mandji island |
Gabon |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Pandam Wildlife Park |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Peko Mountain National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pirang Forest Park |
Gambia |
A3 |
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Sangbe Mountain National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sunvit Farm |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Tai National Park and Nzo Faunal Reserve |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Western Area Peninsula Non-hunting Forest Reserve |
Sierra Leone |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Zwedru |
Liberia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
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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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