Agapornis swindernianus — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Psittaciformes/Psittacidae/Agapornis

At a glance

Occurrence records196

Data sources8

Biological traits24

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources8 archives

Databases and archives Agapornis swindernianus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation14 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility196 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources24 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF196 records

Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈1.1 Gbp

01Narrative

The black-collared lovebird (Agapornis swindernianus) also known as Swindern's lovebird is a small, 13.5 cm (5 in) long, African parrot in the genus Agapornis. It is a mostly green parrot with black band on the back of its neck, and a dark greyish-black bill. Both sexes are similar. It is rarely kept in captivity because of its dietary requirement for a native fig.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAmnioteDBEltonTraitsAVONET

Size & morphology12

Beak depth12.2 mm

Beak length (culmen)15.6 mm

Beak length (nares)13.4 mm

Beak width8.5 mm

Body mass40 g

Body mass (male)40 g

Hand-wing index41.3

Kipp's distance38.5 mm

Secondary length54.8 mm

Tail length35.2 mm

Tarsus length11.2 mm

Wing length92.6 mm

Diet & foraging8

Fruit40 %

Ground50 %

Invertebrate20 %

Midhigh20 %

Seed40 %

Trophic levelherbivore

Trophic nicheOmnivore

Understory30 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleGeneralist

Range size1 494 870 km²

05DNA & barcodingmolecular

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Agapornis swindernianus has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Agapornis swindernianus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size≈1 135 189 122 bp assembly estimate

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Agapornis swindernianus1.14 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.

Assembly levelScaffold

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type196 records

Wild obs. + sensor196

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO292 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy40% within 1 km

≤100 m 1≤1 km 1≤10 km 3

5 georeferenced · 191 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor196

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.