Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Nectariniidae > Nectarinia > Nectarinia tacazzeNectarinia tacazze (Tacazze Sunbird)The Tacazze sunbird (Nectarinia tacazze) is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family.It is found in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.89871 EDGE Score: 1.93133 |
Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams | Birth Weight [2] | 1.9 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 50 % | Diet - Nectar [3] | 50 % | Forages - Aerial [3] | 10 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 50 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 40 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [5] | 1 | Incubation [4] | 15 days |
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Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Aberdare Mountains |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Arusha National Park |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Asmara escarpment |
Eritrea |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Awi Zone |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Bahir Dar: Lake Tana |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4iii |
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Bale Mountains National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Berga floodplain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Cherangani Hills |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Chilimo forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Choke mountains |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Denkoro forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Entoto Natural Park and escarpment |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Gefersa reservoir |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Guassa (Menz) |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Imatong mountains |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Jibat forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Kidepo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Kidepo Valley National Park |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mau forest complex |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Mau Narok: Molo grasslands |
Kenya |
A1, A2 |
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Menagesha State Forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Mount Elgon |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Elgon National Park |
Uganda |
A2, A3 |
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Mount Kenya |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Kilimanjaro |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Moroto Forest Reserve |
Uganda |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mount Zuquala |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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Mugo highlands |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Senafe |
Eritrea |
A2, A3 |
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Simen Mountains National Park |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sululta plain |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Tiro Boter: Becho forest |
Ethiopia |
A1, A3 |
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Yegof forest |
Ethiopia |
A3 |
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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 |
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![](/img/rangekey.png) 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 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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