Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Passeridae > Passer > Passer moabiticusPasser moabiticus (Dead Sea Sparrow)The Dead Sea sparrow (Passer moabiticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, with one subspecies breeding in parts of the Middle East and another in western Afghanistan and eastern Iran. The eastern subspecies P. m. yatii is sometimes considered a separate species Yate's sparrow. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.21915 EDGE Score: 1.82763 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 17.5 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 70 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 30 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 5 | | Incubation [3] | 12 days | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 7 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands |
Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt , Iraq, Jordan, Syria |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Central Asian riparian woodlands |
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Central Asian southern desert |
Turkmenistan stretching, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Cyprus Mediterranean forests |
Cyprus |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests |
Turkey |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests |
Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Syria |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mesopotamian shrub desert |
Iraq, Syria, Jordan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Middle East steppe |
Syria, Iraq |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert |
Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Oman |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert |
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert |
Iran, Iraq, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests |
Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh |
Iran, Iraq |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Zagros Mountains forest steppe |
Iran |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Dana Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
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Jordan |
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Mujib Nature Reserve Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
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Jordan |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Al Jadriyah and Umm Al Khanazeer island |
Iraq |
A1, B2, B3 |
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Dana: Feinan |
Jordan |
A1, A2, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Dez river marshes and plains |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Ein Al-Fashkha |
Palestinian Authority Territories |
B2, B3 |
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Hamidieh (Omidiyeh) plains |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B3 |
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Hamoun-i Sabari and Hamoun-i Hirmand |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Hamun-i-Puzak |
Afghanistan |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Haur Al Hammar |
Iraq |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Hindiya barrage |
Iraq |
A1, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Hula valley |
Israel |
A1, A4i, A4iii, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Jericho |
Palestinian Authority Territories |
A1, A4iv, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Jezre'el, Harod and Bet She'an valleys |
Israel |
A1, A4i, A4iii, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Jordan Valley |
Jordan |
A4i, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Karkheh river marshes |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Mujib |
Jordan |
A1, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Northern Arava valley |
Israel |
A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Northern lower Jordan valley |
Israel |
A1, A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Ras al-Ayn |
Syria |
A1, B2, B3 |
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Samara dam |
Iraq |
A4i, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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South end of the Hamoun-i Puzak |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Southern Arava valley and Elat mountains |
Israel |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Yarmuk valley |
Syria |
B2, B3 |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Irano-Anatolian |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan |
No |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
No |
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz 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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