Cape sparrow, the Glossary
The Cape sparrow (Passer melanurus), or mossie, is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae found in southern Africa.[1]
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72 relations: Acacia, Aloe, Alternanthera caracasana, Basal (phylogenetics), Benguela, Bethulie, Bird, Bird vocalization, Botswana, Brood parasitism, Cape Town, Cape weaver, Caterpillar, Central Asia, Cereal, Cinnamomum, Clutch (eggs), Coins of the South African rand, Courtship display, Crossbill, Diederik cuckoo, Eswatini, Euplectes, Family (biology), Free State (province), Fringilla, Genus, George Kruger Gray, Greek language, Harare, Helichrysum pumilio, House sparrow, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Introduced species, IUCN Red List, J. Denis Summers-Smith, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Johannesburg, Kalahari Basin, KwaZulu-Natal, Latin, Least-concern species, Lesotho, Limpopo, Matthew 10, Miocene, Mitochondrial DNA, Namib, Namibia, Old World sparrow, ... Expand index (22 more) »
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Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
Aloe
Aloe (also written Aloë) is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants.
Alternanthera caracasana
Alternanthera caracasana is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae known by the common names khakiweed, washerwoman and mat chaff flower.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Benguela
Benguela (Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province.
Bethulie
Bethulie is a small sheep and cattle farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Bird vocalization
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.
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Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Brood parasitism
Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of certain animals, brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their young.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
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Cape weaver
The Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis) is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae, found in southern Africa. Cape sparrow and cape weaver are birds of Southern Africa.
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Caterpillar
Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Cereal
A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.
Cinnamomum
Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae.
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Clutch (eggs)
A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.
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Coins of the South African rand
The coins of the South African rand are part of the physical form of South Africa's currency, the South African rand.
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Courtship display
A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display.
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Crossbill
Crossbills are birds of the genus Loxia within the finch family (Fringillidae), with six species.
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Diederik cuckoo
The diederik cuckoo (Chrysococcyx caprius), formerly dideric cuckoo or didric cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo family of birds, Cuculidae, which also includes the roadrunners and the anis.
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Eswatini
Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Euplectes
Euplectes is a genus of passerine bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae, that contains the bishops and widowbirds.
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Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Fringilla
The genus Fringilla is a small group of finches from the Old World, which are the only species in the subfamily Fringillinae.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
George Kruger Gray
George Edward Kruger Gray (25 December 1880 – 2 May 1943) was an English artist, best remembered for his designs of coinage and stained glass windows.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Harare
Harare, formerly known as Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.
Helichrysum pumilio
Helichrysum pumilio is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, known colloquially as the wolbossie.
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House sparrow
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. Cape sparrow and house sparrow are passer.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
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J. Denis Summers-Smith
James Denis Summers-Smith (25 October 1920 – 5 May 2020) was a Scottish ornithologist and mechanical engineer, a specialist both in sparrows and in industrial tribology.
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.
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Kalahari Basin
The Kalahari Basin, also known as the Kalahari Depression, Okavango Basin or the Makgadikgadi Basin, is an endorheic basin and large lowland area covering approximately — mostly within Botswana and Namibia, but also parts of Angola, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa.
Matthew 10
Matthew 10 is the tenth chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament section of the Christian Bible.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Namib
The Namib (Namibe) is a coastal desert in Southern Africa.
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
Old World sparrow
Old World sparrows are a group of small passerine birds forming the family Passeridae.
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Passer
Passer is a genus of sparrows, also known as the true sparrows.
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German zoologist.
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Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa after Durban.
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Ploceidae
Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches, or bishops.
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Robert Gillmor
Robert Allen Fitzwilliam Gillmor MBE (6 July 1936 – 8 May 2022) was a British ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author, and editor.
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Roodepoort
Roodepoort is a town in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Saxaul sparrow
The saxaul sparrow (Passer ammodendri) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in parts of Central Asia. Cape sparrow and saxaul sparrow are passer.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
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Seed predation
Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.
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Sossusvlei
Sossusvlei (sometimes written Sossus Vlei) is a salt and clay pan surrounded by high red dunes, located in the southern part of the Namib Desert, in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia.
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Southern grey-headed sparrow
The southern grey-headed sparrow (Passer diffusus) is a passerine bird of the sparrow family Passeridae. Cape sparrow and southern grey-headed sparrow are birds of Southern Africa and passer.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
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Sudan golden sparrow
The Sudan golden sparrow (Passer luteus) is a small species of bird in the sparrow family found in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape sparrow and Sudan golden sparrow are passer.
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Swallow
The swallows, martins, and saw-wings, or Hirundinidae are a family of passerine songbirds found around the world on all continents, including occasionally in Antarctica.
Thymus vulgaris
Thymus vulgaris (common thyme, German thyme, garden thyme or just thyme) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to southern Europe from the western Mediterranean to southern Italy.
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Vagrancy (biology)
Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside its normal range; they are known as vagrants.
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Veld
Veld, also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in Southern Africa.
Western Cape
The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
Woodland
A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
See also
Passer
- Abd al-Kuri sparrow
- Arabian golden sparrow
- Cape sparrow
- Chestnut sparrow
- Dead Sea sparrow
- Desert sparrow
- Eurasian tree sparrow
- Great sparrow
- House sparrow
- Iago sparrow
- Italian sparrow
- Kenya sparrow
- Kordofan sparrow
- Northern grey-headed sparrow
- Parrot-billed sparrow
- Passer
- Passer predomesticus
- Plain-backed sparrow
- Russet sparrow
- Saxaul sparrow
- Shelley's sparrow
- Sind sparrow
- Socotra sparrow
- Somali sparrow
- Southern grey-headed sparrow
- Spanish sparrow
- Sudan golden sparrow
- Swahili sparrow
- Swainson's sparrow
- Zarudny's sparrow
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_sparrow
Also known as Fringilla arctuata, Gewone Mossie, Loxia melanura, Passer melanurus.
, Passer, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Pietermaritzburg, Ploceidae, Robert Gillmor, Roodepoort, Savanna, Saxaul sparrow, Second Boer War, Seed predation, Sossusvlei, Southern grey-headed sparrow, Subspecies, Sudan golden sparrow, Swallow, Thymus vulgaris, Vagrancy (biology), Veld, Western Cape, Wheat, Woodland, Zimbabwe.