Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Paridae > Parus > Parus aferParus afer (Grey Tit)Synonyms: Melaniparus afer (homotypic); Melaniparus afer afer The grey tit (Melaniparus afer) is a species of bird in the Paridae family.It is found in Lesotho and South Africa.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The grey tit was formerly one of the many species in the genus Parus but was moved to Melaniparus after a molecular phylogenetic analysis published in 2013 showed that the members of the new genus formed a distinct clade. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 11.8898 EDGE Score: 2.55644 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 2 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 80 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Amboseli National Park National Reserve |
II |
99624 |
Kenya |
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Bontebok National Park |
II |
8315 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve |
V |
619089 |
Jilin, China |
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Etosha National Park |
II |
5699141 |
Namibia |
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Kalahari Gemsbok National Park |
II |
2382284 |
Northern Cape, South Africa |
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Karoo National Park |
II |
190300 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Kora National Park |
II |
409762 |
Kenya |
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Kugti Sanctuary |
IV |
126362 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Mountain Zebra National Park |
II |
60944 |
Eastern Cape, South Africa |
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Nargu Sanctuary |
IV |
70769 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Parc National Suisse National Park |
Ia |
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Switzerland |
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Renuka Sanctuary |
IV |
10296 |
Himachal Pradesh, India |
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Richtersveld National Park |
II |
399195 |
Northern Cape, South Africa |
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Cape Peninsula National Park |
II |
70141 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Tsavo National Park |
II |
3232255 |
Kenya |
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West Coast National Park |
II |
59916 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Wilderness National Park |
II |
5929 |
Western Cape, South Africa |
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Wolong Nature Reserve |
V |
826140 |
Sichuan, China |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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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