World Species : Dryoscopus gambensis (Northern Puffback)

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Dryoscopus gambensis (Northern Puffback)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern puffback (Dryoscopus gambensis) is a species of bird in the Malaconotidae family.It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and moist savanna.

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Infraspecies

Dryoscopus gambensis congicus
Dryoscopus gambensis erwini
Dryoscopus gambensis erythreae
Dryoscopus gambensis gambensis
Dryoscopus gambensis malzacii

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 8.19135

EDGE Score: 2.21826

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	32 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	90 %
Diet - Plants ^[2]	10 %
Forages - Canopy ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	70 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	2

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albertine Rift montane forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
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
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane forests	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands	Ethiopia, Eritrea	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
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
Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Mandara Plateau mosaic	Cameroon, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands	Kenya	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Niger Delta swamp forests	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Nigerian lowland forests	Nigeria, Benin	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Rwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna	Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Guinean lowland forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No

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