Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Leiothrichidae > Turdoides > Turdoides altirostrisTurdoides altirostris (Iraq Babbler)Synonyms: Argya altirostris (homotypic) The Iraq babbler (Turdoides altirostris) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family.It is found in Iraq and south western Iran. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.73404 EDGE Score: 1.31749 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 33 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 33 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 33 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 33 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 | | Incubation [3] | 13 days | | Mating Display [1] | Ground display |
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Countries |
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Species |
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Climate |
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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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South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert |
Iran, Iraq, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh |
Iran, Iraq |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Abu Habba |
Iraq |
B3 |
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Al Jadriyah and Umm Al Khanazeer island |
Iraq |
A1, B2, B3 |
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Central Marshes |
Iraq |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2 |
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Dez river marshes and plains |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Hamidieh (Omidiyeh) plains |
Iran, Islamic Republic of |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B3 |
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Haur Al Habbaniya and Ramadi marshes |
Iraq |
A1, A4iii, B2, B3 |
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Haur Al Hammar |
Iraq |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Haur Al Hawizeh |
Iraq |
A1, A2, A3, A4iii, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Haur Chubaisah area |
Iraq |
A1, A2, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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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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