Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cisticolidae > Cisticola > Cisticola bodessaCisticola bodessa (Boran Cisticola)The Boran cisticola (Cisticola bodessa) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family.It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.23969 EDGE Score: 1.65626 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 17.5 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1.5 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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East African montane forests |
Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane forests |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea |
Afrotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Abijatta: Shalla Lakes National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Arboroba escarpment |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Arero forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Awash National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Bogol Manyo: Dolo |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Boma |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Dawa: Wachile |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Genale river |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mago National Park |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Mankubsa: Welenso forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nechisar National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Omo National Park |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Semenawi Bahri |
Eritrea |
A1, A3 |
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Yabello Sanctuary |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, 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 |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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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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