World Species : Quelea quelea (Red-billed Quelea)

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Quelea quelea (Red-billed Quelea)

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Synonyms: Emberiza spec

Wikipedia Abstract

The red-billed quelea (Quelea quelea), also known as the red-billed weaver or red-billed dioch, is the world's most abundant wild bird species, with an estimated adult breeding population of 1.5 billion pairs. Some estimates of the overall population have been as large as 10 billion. The entire population is found in sub-Saharan Africa and is generally absent from thickly forested regions and the southern reaches of South Africa. It is a small passerine bird of the weaver family, Ploceidae.

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Infraspecies

Quelea quelea aethiopica
Quelea quelea lathamii
Quelea quelea quelea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 5.12879

EDGE Score: 1.813

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	19.5 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	1.8 grams

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	10 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	90 %

Clutch Size ^[6]	2
Fledging ^[1]	13 days
Incubation ^[5]	10 days
Mating Display ^[2]	Ground display
Maximum Longevity ^[4]	10 years

Female Maturity ^[4]	2 years
Male Maturity ^[4]	2 years

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests	South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Eastern Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Mozambique	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Highveld grasslands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands	Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic	South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Lake Chad flooded savanna	Nigeria, Chad, Niger	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Sahelian Acacia savanna	Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Serengeti volcanic grasslands	Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Tanzania, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Africa bushveld	Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Miombo woodlands	Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic	Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna	Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Zambezian grasslands	Angola, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands	South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa	Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania	No
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No

Prey / Diet

Dactyloctenium aegyptium (Durban crowsfoot grass)	^[7]
Echinochloa colonum (Jungle ricegrass)	^[7]
Echinochloa pyramidalis (antelope grass)	^[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Circus macrourus (Pallid Harrier)

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Biuterina quelea <Unverified Name>	^[8]
Echinocotyle dolosa <Unverified Name>	^[8]
Paruterina quelea <Unverified Name>	^[8]

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
♦ ⁴de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ ⁵Ward, P. (1965), "THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE BLACK-FACED DIOCH QUELEA QUELEA IN NIGERIA". Ibis, 107: 326–349
♦ 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
♦ ⁷del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁸Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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