Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Crithagra > Crithagra leucopteraCrithagra leucoptera (Protea Canary)Synonyms: Serinus leucopterus The protea canary, Crithagra leucopterus, (also known as the protea seedeater, white-winged seedeater or Layard’s seedeater) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.16744 EDGE Score: 1.4273 |
Adult Weight [1] | 22 grams | Birth Weight [1] | 2.3 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | Diet - Plants [2] | 40 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 30 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 3 | Incubation [3] | 17 days | Mating Display [1] | Ground display |
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Anysberg Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Cedarberg: Koue Bokkeveld complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Eastern False Bay mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Kouga: Baviaanskloof complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Outeniqua mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Southern Langeberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Swartberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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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 ♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 4Jetz 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 |
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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