Carpodectes antoniae

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests • Maximum Elevation: 800 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Humid Pacific Coast • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,016 meters (0 to 3,333 feet).[1]

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: It primarily occurs in extensive mangroves , but also lowland forest or scrub adjacent to mangroves and occasionally isolated trees in nearby clearings or pastures. Post-breeding wanderers have been found in foothill forest, and there is one record of displaying males at 760 m. The breeding season is probably March-June. It feeds on a variety of fruits, including those of the pava tree Schefflera morototoni1,6.[2]


List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland 1.7Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level 3.6Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Carpodectes

There are approximately 3 species in this genus:

C. antoniae (Yellow-Billed Cotinga) · C. hopkei (Black-Tipped Cotinga) · C. nitidus (Snowy Cotinga)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 149.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• 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.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 193, p. 262, p. 306, p. 787.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 277, p. 345.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. ENG url p. 112.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 389.
• Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
• Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 74.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. ENG url p. 609.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. ENG url p. 7.

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.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 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 04, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3845920
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-559077
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13750190
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 559077
• IUCN ID: 3913
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2896

Footnotes

1. Mean = 512.260 meters (1,680.643 feet), Standard Deviation = 546.630 based on 19 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]

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