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Serinus syriacus (Syrian Serin)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Syrian serin is a brightly coloured small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Serinus syriacus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Serinus syriacus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.22093
EDGE Score: 2.82635

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  11.5 grams
Birth Weight [2]  1.5 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  70 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  33 %
Forages - Understory [3]  33 %
Forages - Ground [3]  33 %
Clutch Size [5]  4
Incubation [4]  13 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barouk Cedars Forest Reserve   Lebanon  
Dana Wildlife Reserve IV   Jordan  
Mujib Nature Reserve Wildlife Reserve IV   Jordan
Wadi Rum Protected Area National Park V   Jordan  

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Prey / Diet

Crepis aspera[4]
Hirschfeldia incana (shortpod mustard)[4]
Matricaria aurea[4]
Schismus arabicus (Arabian schismus)[4]
Senecio vernalis (Grey ragwort)[4]

Range Map

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
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