Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Acrocephalidae > Calamonastides > Calamonastides gracilirostrisCalamonastides gracilirostris (Papyrus Yellow Warbler)Synonyms: Chloropeta gracilirostris The papyrus yellow warbler, papyrus flycatcher-warbler or thin-billed flycatcher-warbler, (Calamonastides gracilirostris) is a species of tree warbler; formerly, these were placed in the paraphyletic "Old World warblers". It is monotypic in its genus.It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitat is swamps.It is threatened by habitat loss. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 10.3465 EDGE Score: 3.8152 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 11 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 40 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Albertine Rift montane forests |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic |
Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Virunga National Park |
II |
1919742 |
Nord-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Akanyaru wetlands |
Rwanda |
A1, A3 |
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Doho Rice Scheme |
Uganda |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Dunga swamp |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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Itombwe Mountains |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kagera swamps |
Tanzania |
A1, A3 |
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Koguta swamp |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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Kyambura Wildlife Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Mburo National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lake Nakuwa |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Luapula mouth |
Zambia |
A1, A3 |
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Lutembe Bay |
Uganda |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Minziro Forest Reserve |
Tanzania |
A1, A3 |
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Nabajjuzi Wetland |
Uganda |
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Nyabarongo wetlands |
Rwanda |
A1, A3 |
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Nyamuriro swamp |
Uganda |
A1, A3 |
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Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake George |
Uganda |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Rugezi Marsh |
Rwanda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ruvubu National Park |
Burundi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Rwihinda Lake Managed Nature Reserve |
Burundi |
A1, A3 |
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Virunga National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Yala swamp complex |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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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 ♦ 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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