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Ploceus rubiginosus (Chestnut Weaver)

Wikipedia Abstract

The chestnut weaver (Ploceus rubiginosus) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
View Wikipedia Record: Ploceus rubiginosus

Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
9
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.89479
EDGE Score: 1.35964

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30 grams
Birth Weight [2]  2.9 grams
Female Weight [1]  28 grams
Male Weight [1]  32 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  14.3 %
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Nectar [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  70 %
Forages - Canopy [3]  80 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  20 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Incubation [4]  12 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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