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Nectarinia famosa (Malachite Sunbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The malachite sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) is a small nectivorous bird found from the highlands of Ethiopia southwards to South Africa.
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Infraspecies

Nectarinia famosa cupreonitens
Nectarinia famosa famosa

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.90005
EDGE Score: 1.93153
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  14.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.6 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Nectarivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  50 %
Forages - Aerial [3]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  10 %
Forages - Understory [3]  50 %
Forages - Ground [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  3
Fledging [1]  18 days
Incubation [4]  13 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

Prey / Diet

Aloe marlothii (Mountain aloe)[6]
Hagenia abyssinica[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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.
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6Response of avian nectarivores to the flowering of Aloe marlothii: a nectar oasis during dry South African winters, Craig T. Symes , Susan W. Nicolson and Andrew E. McKechnie, Journal of Ornithology Volume 149, Number 1, 13-22
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