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Promerops gurneyi (Gurney's Sugarbird)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Gurney's sugarbird (Promerops gurneyi) is a species of bird in the Promeropidae family. It is found in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British Banker and amateur ornithologist John Henry Gurney (1819-1890).
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Infraspecies

Promerops gurneyi ardens
Promerops gurneyi gurneyi

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
10
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 19.847
EDGE Score: 3.03721
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  35 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3.6 grams
Female Weight [4]  33 grams
Male Weight [4]  37 grams
Weight Dimorphism [4]  12.1 %
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 %
Clutch Size [6]  1
Incubation [5]  16 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display (mostly)
Maximum Longevity [5]  13 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic Zimbabwe, Mozambique Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Golden Gate Highlands National Park II 28689 Free State, South Africa
Hlane Royal National Park VI 30892 Swaziland  
Malolotja Nature Reserve IV 42044 Swaziland  
Marakele National Park II 163507 Limpopo, South Africa

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

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
♦ 4Cheke, RA, Mann, CF & Allen, R. (2001). Sunbirds: a guide to the sunbirds, flowerpeckers, spiderhunters, and sugarbirds of the world. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
♦ 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
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