World Species : Lonchura fringilloides (Magpie Mannikin)

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Lonchura fringilloides (Magpie Mannikin)

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Synonyms: Spermestes fringilloides (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The magpie mannikin or magpie munia (Lonchura fringilloides) is a species of estrildid finch found in southern and central Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,400,000 km². It is found in subtropical/ tropical (lowland) moist shrubland, forest and dry grassland habitat. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.19601

EDGE Score: 1.43413

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	16.5 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	1.1 grams

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	10 %
Diet - Nectar ^[3]	20 %
Diet - Plants ^[3]	20 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	50 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[3]	30 %
Forages - Understory ^[3]	70 %

Clutch Size ^[4]	5
Incubation ^[4]	13 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests	Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central Congolian lowland forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
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 Congolian swamp forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Guinean forests	Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Eastern Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and 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
Guinean montane forests	Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and 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
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Tanzania, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola	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 Congolian swamp forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo	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

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
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

Prey / Diet

Oreobambos buchwaldii	^[4]
Oxytenanthera abyssinica (Abyssinia oxytenanthera)	^[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by
Echinocotyle dolosa <Unverified Name>	^[5]

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
♦ 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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