Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Estrildidae > Pyrenestes > Pyrenestes minorPyrenestes minor (Lesser Seedcracker)The lesser seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor) is a common species of estrildid finch found in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 410,000 km2. It is found in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The IUCN has classified the species as being of least concern. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.41389 EDGE Score: 1.68897 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 14 grams | | Birth Weight [2] | 1.6 grams |  | | Diet [3] | Granivore | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [2] | 5 | | Incubation [1] | 14 days |
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| Name |
Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Chimanimani Mountains |
Mozambique |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Dzalanyama Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A3 |
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Furancungo woodlands |
Mozambique |
A1, A3 |
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Gorongosa Mountain and National Park |
Mozambique |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Haroni: Rusitu junction and Botanical Reserves |
Zimbabwe |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kisarawe District Coastal Forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Lindi District Coastal Forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A3 |
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Namizimu Forest Reserve |
Malawi |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nyanga lowlands/Honde valley |
Zimbabwe |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Pande Game Reserve and Dondwe Coastal Forests |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Selous Game Reserve |
Tanzania |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Zambezi River Delta |
Mozambique |
A1, A3, A4i |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa |
Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania |
No |
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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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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 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 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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