Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Leiothrichidae > Turdoides > Turdoides squamicepsTurdoides squamiceps (Arabian Babbler)Synonyms: Argya squamiceps (homotypic); Argya squamiceps squamiceps The Arabian babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) is a passerine bird belonging to the genus Turdoides. It is a communally nesting resident bird of arid scrub in the Middle East which lives together in relatively stable groups with strict orders of rank. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.6897 EDGE Score: 1.30554 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 74 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Nectarivore, Granivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Nectar [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Scavenger [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 4 | | Incubation [3] | 14 days | | Mating Display [5] | Ground display | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 14 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Al Hajar montane woodlands |
Oman |
Afrotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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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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Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert |
Oman, United Arab Emirates |
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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Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna |
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands |
Yemen, Saudi Arabia |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Aqaba |
Jordan |
A4iv, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Bab al-Mandab: Mawza |
Yemen |
A1, A3, A4iv, B1ii, B1iv, B2 |
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Cliffs of Zin and the Negev highlands |
Israel |
A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Dana: Feinan |
Jordan |
A1, A2, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Digdaga: Hamraniyah |
United Arab Emirates |
A1, B2, B3 |
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Jericho |
Palestinian Authority Territories |
A1, A4iv, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Jerusalem wilderness |
Palestinian Authority Territories |
A4i, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Judean desert |
Israel |
A1, A3, A4i, B1i, B2, B3 |
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Ma'rib: Naqil Fardah: Baraqish |
Yemen |
A3, B2, B3 |
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Masafi: Tayibah area |
United Arab Emirates |
A3, B3 |
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Mujib |
Jordan |
A1, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Mushrif National Park |
United Arab Emirates |
B3 |
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Northern Arava valley |
Israel |
A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Qarn Nazwa |
United Arab Emirates |
B3 |
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Quseima |
Egypt |
A3 |
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Rum: Qa Hizma |
Jordan |
A3, B2, B3 |
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Southern Arava valley and Elat mountains |
Israel |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iv, B1i, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Wadi Araba |
Jordan |
B2, B3 |
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Wadi Gerafi |
Egypt |
A3 |
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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 ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 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 ♦ 3Intrinsic aging-related mortality in birds, Robert E. Ricklefs, JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY 31: 103–111. Copenhagen 2000 ♦ 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 ♦ 5Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 6SYMENS, P. (1988). Effects of the mass migration of desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria on birds in the Taif area. Arabia. ♦ 7del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 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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