World Species : Criniger barbatus (Western Bearded Greenbul)

Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Pycnonotidae > Criniger > Criniger barbatus

Criniger barbatus (Western Bearded Greenbul)

Contents

Synonyms: Trichophorus barbatus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The western bearded bulbul (Criniger barbatus) is a species of songbird in the Pycnonotidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

View Wikipedia Record: Criniger barbatus

Infraspecies

Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus
Criniger barbatus barbatus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 6.50963

EDGE Score: 2.01619

Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	42 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	20 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	70 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	60 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	40 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	2

Ecoregions

+ Click for the list (10)

Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Central African mangroves	Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial, Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Mangroves
Cross-Niger transition forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic	Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Guinean mangroves	Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire	Afrotropic	Mangroves
Guinean montane forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Niger Delta swamp forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Guinean lowland forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

+ Click for the list (10)

Important Bird Areas

+ Click for the list (57)

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No

Range Map

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
♦ 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

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