Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Sylviidae > Sylvia > Sylvia leucomelaenaSylvia leucomelaena (Arabian Warbler)Synonyms: Curruca leucomelaena (homotypic); Curruca leucomelaena leucomelaena The Arabian warbler, Red Sea warbler or Blandford's warbler (Sylvia leucomelaena), is a species of Old World warbler in the Sylviidae family.It is found in Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Its natural habitat is dry savanna country where it is often found in patches of Acacia. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.27696 EDGE Score: 1.83688 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 80 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 60 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 3 | | Incubation [3] | 15 days |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands |
Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt , Iraq, Jordan, Syria |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert |
Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Ethiopian montane forests |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands |
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Middle East steppe |
Syria, Iraq |
Palearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert |
Egypt, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Oman |
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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Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Somali montane xeric woodlands |
Somalia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric 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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Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna |
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Dana Wildlife Reserve |
IV |
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Jordan |
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Khawr Salalah Reserve |
IV |
3091 |
Oman |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Al-Habrow al-Arabi |
Saudi Arabia |
A3, B2, B3 |
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Aqaba |
Jordan |
A4iv, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Dana: Feinan |
Jordan |
A1, A2, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Hima al-Fiqrah |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, B2, B3 |
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Jabal Faifa |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, B2, B3 |
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Khawr Rouri |
Oman |
B1i, B2, B3 |
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Ma'rib: Naqil Fardah: Baraqish |
Yemen |
A3, B2, B3 |
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Mafraq al-Mukha |
Yemen |
A1, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Northern Arava valley |
Israel |
A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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The wooded Mahra |
Yemen |
B3 |
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Wadi Araba |
Jordan |
B2, B3 |
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Wadi Darbat |
Oman |
B1i, B2, B3 |
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Wadi Hajar |
Yemen |
B3 |
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Wadi Jahr |
Yemen |
A3, B3 |
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Wadi Jawwah |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Wadi Turabah and Jabal Ibrahim |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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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 ♦ 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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