Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Passeridae > Passer > Passer simplexPasser simplex (Desert Sparrow)Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.20612 EDGE Score: 1.82554 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 3 | | Incubation [3] | 12 days |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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North Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sahara desert |
Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands |
Chad, Libya |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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West Saharan montane xeric woodlands |
Algeria, Niger, Mali, Mauritania |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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| Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Arâguîb el Jahfa |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Banc d'Arguin National Park |
Mauritania |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Béni Abbès |
Algeria |
A3 |
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Buzaubay |
Uzbekistan |
A1, A3 |
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Chegga |
Mauritania |
A3 |
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Dakhla area |
Morocco |
A3, A4i |
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Dilia de Lagané |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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El Ghallâouîya |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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El Mréiti |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Ghat oases |
Libya |
A3 |
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Ibi (Graret el Frass) |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Jbil |
Tunisia |
A3 |
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Kediet ej Jill |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Khodzhaa-Davlet |
Uzbekistan |
A3 |
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Merzouga/Tamezguidat |
Morocco |
A1, A3, A4i |
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NNR Aïr: Ténéré |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim |
Chad |
A1, A3 |
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Oued Mird |
Morocco |
A3 |
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Parc National de l'Ahaggar |
Algeria |
A1, A3 |
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Parc National du Tassili N'Ajjer |
Algeria |
A3 |
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Repetek |
Turkmenistan |
A3 |
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Tamreïkat |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Tibesti massif |
Chad |
A3 |
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Tinigart |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Wad Initi |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Wagchogda |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Zallaf |
Libya |
A3 |
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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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