Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Cisticolidae > Spiloptila > Spiloptila clamansSpiloptila clamans (Cricket Longtail; Cricket Warbler)Synonyms: Malurus clamans The cricket warbler or cricket longtail (Spiloptila clamans) is a species of bird in the Cisticolidae family. It belongs to the genus Spiloptila; it is often the only species included in the genus but sometimes the red-fronted warbler is placed there as well. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.02105 EDGE Score: 2.08207 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 7 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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East Saharan montane xeric woodlands |
Chad, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna |
Mali |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Lake Chad flooded savanna |
Nigeria, Chad, Niger |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Sahara desert |
Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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West Sudanian savanna |
Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Aftout es Sâheli |
Mauritania |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Ag Oua: Ag Arbech |
Mali |
A3 |
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Arâguîb el Jahfa |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Béli River |
Burkina Faso |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Central Plateau: Keren |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Dilia de Lagané |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Djoudj wetlands |
Senegal |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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El Ghallâouîya |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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El Mréiti |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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En Nahud |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Fada Archei |
Chad |
A3 |
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Falaise de Bandiagara |
Mali |
A3 |
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Ferlo North |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Ferlo South |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Hadejia-Nguru wetlands |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Jebel Marra |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Kediet ej Jill |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Lac Débo: Lac Oualado Débo |
Mali |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lac Télé |
Mali |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Chad |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Kundi |
Sudan |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Oursi: Lake Darkoye |
Burkina Faso |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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NNR Aïr: Ténéré |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim |
Chad |
A1, A3 |
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River Sénégal (Ntiagar to Richard-Toll) |
Senegal |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Tamreïkat |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Tombouctou |
Mali |
A3 |
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Um Badr lake |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Wad Initi |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Wadi Halfa |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Wagchogda |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Western Plain: Barka river |
Eritrea |
A3 |
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Western Plain: Gash: Setit |
Eritrea |
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 ♦ 3Jetz 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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