World Species : Malimbus cassini (Cassin's Malimbe)

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Malimbus cassini (Cassin's Malimbe)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Cassin's malimbe (Malimbus cassini) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Ghana.

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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.69258

EDGE Score: 1.54598

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	35 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	20 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	80 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	40 %

Clutch Size ^[3]	2

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
Eastern Congolian swamp forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo	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 Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic 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

Protected Areas

Name	IUCN Category	Area acres	Location
Nouabalï-Ndoki National Park	II	1013529	Congo
Parc National de la Lopé National Park		1227419	Gabon
Reserve de Moukalaba-Dougoua (Gamba Complex) Faunal Reserve	IV	266550	Gabon

Important Bird Areas

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Prey / Diet

Ficus pseudomangifera

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Prey / Diet Overlap

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Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
♦ ³Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ ⁴"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

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