Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Mexican Cacique, Yellow-Winged Cacique
Common Names in French:
Cassique à Ailes Jaunes
Common Names in German:
Haubenkassike
Common Names in Japanese:
キバネツリスドリ
Common Names in Spanish:
Cacique Mexicano
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 950 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,004 meters (0 to 6,575 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.5Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
14.6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Cacicus Melanicteris
- Cacicus melanicteris (Bonaparte) , 1825
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Cacicus
There are approximately 25 species in this genus:
C. cela (Yellow-Rumped Cacique) · C. cela cela (Yellow-Rumped Cacique) · C. cela flavicrissus · C. cela vitellinus · C. chrysonotus (Southern Mountain Cacique) · C. chrysonotus chrysonotus (Southern Mountain Cacique) · C. chrysonotus leucoramphus · C. chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Cacique) · C. cristatus · C. haemorrhous (Red-Rumped Cacique) · C. haemorrhous affinis · C. haemorrhous haemorrhous · C. holosericeus (Yellow-Billed Cacique) · C. koepckeae (Selva Cacique) · C. leucoramphus · C. melanicterus (Yellow-Winged Cacique) · C. microrhynchus · C. persicus · C. sclateri (Ecuadorian Black Cacique) · C. solitarius (Solitary Cacique) · C. uropygialis (Scarlet-Rumped Cacique) · C. uropygialis microrhynchus · C. uropygialis pacificus · C. uropygialis uropygialis (Scarlet-Rumped Cacique) · C. wagleri
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Further Reading
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 21, 2007.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
- Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850936
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558968
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14628990
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558968
- IUCN ID: 54113
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130084
Footnotes
- Mean = 307.620 meters (1,009.252 feet), Standard Deviation = 473.600 based on 217 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
