Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Leiothrichidae > Turdoides > Turdoides melanopsTurdoides melanops (Black-faced Babbler)The black-faced babbler (Turdoides melanops) is a species of songbird in the Leiothrichidae family. It was once it was considered conspecific with the black-lored babbler, T. sharpei. As defined here, it occurs in northwestern Botswana, northern Namibia, and Angola. Like other Turdoides, it is found low or on the ground in or near dense woody vegetation, including in cultivated areas. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.67738 EDGE Score: 1.3022 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 77 grams | | Birth Weight [1] | 4.4 grams | | Male Weight [4] | 77 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 30 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 3 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Angolan Mopane woodlands |
Angola, Namibia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands |
Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands |
Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Eastern Caprivi wetlands |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Epupa: Ruacana |
Namibia |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Etosha National Park |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Hobatere |
Namibia |
A2, A3 |
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Mahango Game Reserve and Kavango river |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Mupa National Park |
Angola |
A1, A3 |
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Okavango Delta |
Botswana |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Tsumkwe pan system |
Namibia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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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 ♦ 4Nathan 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 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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