Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Ploceidae > Ploceus > Ploceus bojeriPloceus bojeri (Golden Palm Weaver)The golden palm weaver (Ploceus bojeri) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.91256 EDGE Score: 1.36419 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 23 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 2.3 grams | | Female Weight [4] | 20 grams | | Male Weight [4] | 26 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [4] | 30 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [2] | 2 | | Mating Display [2] | Ground display |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Eastern Arc forests |
Tanzania, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Aangole: Farbiito |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Arbowerow |
Somalia |
A3, A4iii |
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Balcad Nature Reserve |
Somalia |
A2, A3 |
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Buulobarde |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Far Waamo |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Jowhar: Warshiikh |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Laag Badaana |
Somalia |
A1, A3 |
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Lower Wabi Shebelle river and Warder |
Ethiopia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Meru National Park |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves |
Kenya |
A3 |
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Shaba National Reserve |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tana River Delta |
Kenya |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Tana River Forests |
Kenya |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Xawaadley reservoir |
Somalia |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
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 ♦ 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 ♦ 4Fry, CH and S. Keith. 2004. The birds of Africa. Volume VII. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA 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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