Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Laniidae > Lanius > Lanius somalicusLanius somalicus (Somali Fiscal)The Somali fiscal (Lanius somalicus) is a species of bird in the Laniidae family. Other common names include the Karoli fiscal, the Somali fiscal shrike and the Somali shrike. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.36308 EDGE Score: 1.67954 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 56 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 4.2 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates) | | Diet - Ectothermic [3] | 10 % | | Diet - Endothermic [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 70 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Ali Sabieh: Assâmo |
Djibouti |
A3 |
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Awash National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Boorama plains |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ceel Hammure |
Somalia |
A1, A3 |
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Daalo |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dawa: Wachile |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dida Galgalu desert |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Gacan Libaax |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hobyo |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Jasiira lagoon and Muqdisho islets |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Jowhar: Warshiikh |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lake Turkana |
Kenya |
A4i, A4iii |
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Lascaanod: Taleex: Ceel Chebet |
Somalia |
A1, A3 |
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Raas Xaafuun: Raas Gumbax |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Saylac |
Somalia |
A3 |
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Xarardheere: Awale Rugno |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Yabello Sanctuary |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Yangudi-Rassa National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
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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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