Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Acrocephalidae > Iduna > Iduna similisIduna similis (Mountain Yellow Warbler)Synonyms: Chloropeta similis The mountain yellow warbler or mountain flycatcher-warbler (Iduna similis) is a species of Acrocephalidae warblers; formerly, these were placed in the paraphyletic "Old World warblers". It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.34798 EDGE Score: 1.99443 |
Adult Weight [1] | 11 grams | Birth Weight [2] | 1.8 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | Forages - Canopy [3] | 33 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 33 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 33 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 2 |
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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 |
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East African montane forests |
Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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East African montane moorlands |
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Eastern Arc forests |
Tanzania, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Rwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Aberdare Mountains |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Arusha National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Bururi Forest Nature Reserve |
Burundi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bwindi Impenetrable National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cherangani Hills |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Cyamudongo forest |
Rwanda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Echuya Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Forests west of Lake Edward |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Imatong mountains |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Itombwe Mountains |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kahuzi-Biega National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kibira National Park |
Burundi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kidepo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Kidepo Valley National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kikuyu Escarpment forest |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lake Manyara National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Mau forest complex |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Mgahinga Gorilla National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon National Park |
Uganda |
A2, A3 |
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Mount Kabobo |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kenya |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kilimanjaro |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Rungwe |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Njombe forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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North Nandi forest |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyika National Park |
Zambia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyika National Park |
Malawi |
A2, A3 |
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Nyungwe National Park |
Rwanda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Rubeho Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Rwenzori Mountains National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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South Nandi forest |
Kenya |
A1, A3 |
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South Nguruman |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Ukaguru Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Uluguru Mountains |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Virunga National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Volcans National Park |
Rwanda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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 ♦ 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 |
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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