Little purple tiger
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The small purple tiger ( Pyrenestes minor ), also called pomegranate tiger , is an African species of the finch family . No subspecies are described for this species.
description
Similar to the purple tiger, large and small-beaked species also live close together in the lesser purple tiger. In the closely related purple tiger, it has been shown on the basis of cross-breeding that the polymorphism is located on a genetic locus and that the allele for large-beakedness is inherited as a dominant inheritance.
The small purple tiger reaches a body length of fourteen centimeters and thus does not differ in size from the purple tiger. In the male, the forehead and front parting as well as the eye area and the sides of the head up to the ear area, the throat, the goiter area and the upper chest are scarlet. The upper tail-coverts and the middle tail feathers as well as the outer hems of the other tail feathers are also red. The rest of the body is earth brown. The beak is black and the eyes are brown.
In the female, only the forehead, the front parting, the eye area as well as the front sides of the goiter and the upper throat are red. The rest of the body is earth-brown like the male.
Distribution area and way of life
The distribution area of the little purple tiger is the southern East Africa . He lives there on the edges of the forest and dense bushes on watercourses. In Tanzania it also comes along irrigation systems and in Mozambique in weed thickets near rice fields in the lowlands. He is usually observed in pairs.
The distribution area varies depending on the distribution area. The breeding season falls in the rainy season.
attitude
The lesser purple tiger were occasionally introduced in small numbers in the 1960s. Like all purple trildes , however, freshly imported birds are very susceptible and since there are no descriptions of how they are kept, all birds have probably died during the acclimatization phase.
supporting documents
literature
- Jürgen Nicolai (Ed.), Joachim Steinbacher (Ed.), Renate van den Elzen, Gerhard Hofmann, Claudia Mettke-Hofmann: Prachtfinken - Afrika. Series Handbuch der Vogelpflege, Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-4964-3 .
Single receipts
Web link
- Pyrenestes minor inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Listed by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2014.