Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Promeropidae > Promerops > Promerops caferPromerops cafer (Cape Sugarbird)The Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) is one of the six bird species endemic to the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 19.847 EDGE Score: 3.03721 |
Adult Weight [1] | 35 grams | Birth Weight [2] | 3.8 grams | Female Weight [4] | 32 grams | Male Weight [4] | 38 grams | Weight Dimorphism [4] | 18.8 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 40 % | Diet - Nectar [3] | 60 % | Forages - Aerial [3] | 30 % | Forages - Canopy [3] | 10 % | Forages - Mid-High [3] | 20 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 40 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [6] | 2 | Clutches / Year [1] | 2 | Fledging [1] | 20 days | Incubation [5] | 17 days | Mating Display [2] | Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display | Maximum Longevity [5] | 14 years |
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Land Use |
Amatole forest complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Anysberg Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Botriviervlei and Kleinmond estuary |
South Africa |
A4i, A4iii |
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Boulders Bay |
South Africa |
A1 |
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Cedarberg: Koue Bokkeveld complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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De Hoop Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Eastern False Bay mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kouga: Baviaanskloof complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Outeniqua mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Overberg wheatbelt |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Southern Langeberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Swartberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Tsitsikamma National Park |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Verlorenvlei |
South Africa |
A4i |
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Wilderness: Sedgefield lakes complex |
South Africa |
A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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![](/img/rangekey.png) 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, S. Keith, and EK Urban. 2000. The birds of Africa. Volume VI. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA ♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 6Jetz 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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