Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Crithagra > Crithagra tottaCrithagra totta (Cape Siskin)Synonyms: Loxia totta; Serinus totta The Cape siskin, (Crithagra totta), is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is an endemic resident breeder in the southern Cape Province of South Africa. This locally common but shy and unobtrusive siskin is found in the southwestern and southern Cape’s rocky slopes, coastal cliffs and fynbos-covered mountains. It also occurs in towns and the suburbs of Cape Town. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.64509 EDGE Score: 1.73079 |
Adult Weight [1] | 13.5 grams | Birth Weight [2] | 1.7 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 20 % | Diet - Plants [3] | 50 % | Diet - Seeds [3] | 30 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 50 % | Forages - Ground [3] | 50 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [5] | 4 | Incubation [4] | 16 days |
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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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De Hoop Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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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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Overberg wheatbelt |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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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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Tsitsikamma National Park |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Verlorenvlei |
South Africa |
A4i |
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![](/img/rangekey.png) 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 |
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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