Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Rhynchostruthus > Rhynchostruthus socotranusRhynchostruthus socotranus (Socotra Golden-winged Grosbeak)Synonyms: Rhynchostruthus socotranus socotranus The Socotra golden-winged grosbeak or Socotra grosbeak (Rhynchostruthus socotranus) is a finch endemic to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Yemen. R. socotranus is by some authorities held to be the only species of the then-monotypic genus Rhynchostruthus, including all other golden-winged grosbeaks therein as subspecies. But in recent times the three populations are usually considered a distinct species, with R. socotranus being limited to the Socotra population, the Arabian golden-winged grosbeak becoming R. percivali, and the Somali golden-winged grosbeak R. louisae. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.88707 EDGE Score: 1.58659 |
Adult Weight [1] | 32 grams | | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 30 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 40 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 33 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 33 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 33 % | | Mating Display [1] | Non-acrobatic aerial display |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land Use |
Central Asian riparian woodlands |
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Gissaro-Alai open woodlands |
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Socotra Island xeric shrublands |
Yemen |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Somali montane xeric woodlands |
Somalia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna |
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands |
Yemen, Saudi Arabia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tian Shan montane conifer forests |
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows |
China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Ural montane forests and tundra |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Boreal Forests/Taiga |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Boorama plains |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Daalo |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Diksam, Socotra |
Yemen |
A1, A3, B2 |
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Firjih/Central Socotra |
Yemen |
A3, B3 |
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Firmihin near Jabal Keseslah, Socotra |
Yemen |
A3 |
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Gacan Libaax |
Somalia |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Hamaderoh plateau and scarp, Socotra |
Yemen |
A2, A3, B3 |
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Ibb: Dhi Sufal |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Jabal Qamar |
Oman |
A1, B3 |
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Jabal Samhan |
Oman |
B3 |
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Muqadrihon pass, Socotra |
Yemen |
A3, B3 |
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Rewgid and Regid plateaus, Socotra |
Yemen |
A3 |
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Ta'izz wadis |
Yemen |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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The wooded Mahra |
Yemen |
B3 |
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Wadi Ayhaft, Socotra |
Yemen |
A2, A3, B3 |
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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 |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Hamish 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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