World Species : Crithagra albogularis (White-throated Canary)

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Crithagra albogularis (White-throated Canary)

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Synonyms: Serinus albogularis

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-throated canary (Crithagra albogularis) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.

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Infraspecies

Crithagra albogularis albogularis
Crithagra albogularis crocopygia
Crithagra albogularis hewitti
Crithagra albogularis orangensis
Crithagra albogularis sordahlae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 3.63466

EDGE Score: 1.53356

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	27 grams
Birth Weight ^[1]	2.3 grams
Female Weight ^[3]	22 grams

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Plants ^[2]	30 %
Diet - Seeds ^[2]	30 %
Forages - Mid-High ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Understory ^[2]	33 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	33 %

Clutch Size ^[5]	3
Incubation ^[4]	16 days

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Highveld grasslands	South Africa	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Kaokoveld desert	Namibia, Angola	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld	South Africa	Afrotropic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Montane fynbos and renosterveld	South Africa	Afrotropic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert	Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Cape Floristic Region	South Africa	No
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	No

Prey / Diet

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Lamprotornis bicolor (Pied Starling)	1
Pycnonotus capensis (Cape Bulbul)	1

External References

Citations

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
♦ ³Nathan 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
♦ ⁴del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ ⁵Jetz 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