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Apalis argentea (Kungwe Apalis)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Kungwe apalis (Apalis argentea) is a species in the Cisticolidae family. It was previously considered it to be a subspecies of the buff-throated apalis. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Apalis argentea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
48
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.07093
EDGE Score: 3.88295
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Albertine Rift montane forests Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mahale Mountains National Park II 398414 Tanzania

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Bururi Forest Nature Reserve Burundi A1, A2, A3
Cyamudongo forest Rwanda A1, A2, A3
Kibira National Park Burundi A1, A2, A3
Mahali Mountain National Park Tanzania A1, A2, A3
Nyungwe National Park Rwanda A1, A2, A3

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 Yes

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
♦ 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
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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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