Apalis sharpii

Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Passeriformes/Cisticolidae/Apalis

At a glance

Occurrence records2 759

Data sources6

Biological traits24

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources6 archives

Databases and archives Apalis sharpii's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation7 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 759 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements3 literature sources24 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF2 759 records

01Narrative

Sharpe's apalis (Apalis sharpii) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae. It is found in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. Sharpe's apalis was described by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley in 1884. He coined the binomial name Apalis sharpii. Both the common name and the specific epithet honour the English ornithologist and museum curator Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesAmnioteDBAVONETEltonTraits

Size & morphology13

Beak depth3.1 mm

Beak length (culmen)13.1 mm

Beak length (nares)8.1 mm

Beak width2.6 mm

Body mass8.7 g

Body mass (female)8.3 g

Body mass (male)9.1 g

Hand-wing index8.9

Kipp's distance4 mm

Secondary length41.6 mm

Tail length51.9 mm

Tarsus length16.6 mm

Wing length45.7 mm

Life cycle & reproduction1

Litter size3

Diet & foraging6

Canopy30 %

Invertebrate100 %

Midhigh40 %

Trophic levelcarnivore

Trophic nicheInvertivore

Understory30 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size386 331 km²

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type2 759 records

Wild obs. + sensor2 758

Museum / vouchered1

Origin

Native4

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO1 040 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 accuracy99% within 1 km

≤100 m 147≤1 km 16≤10 km 2

165 georeferenced · 2 593 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor2 758

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

≤10 km 1

1 georeferenced

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence1

Wildobservation + sensor

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

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions1 of 1 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
New Haven, US	1

1 institutions · 1 of 1 vouchered records shown

At a glance

Sources6 archives

Size & morphology13

Life cycle & reproduction1

Diet & foraging6

Habitat & environment4

Record type2 759 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions1 of 1 geolocated

Record type2 759 records