Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Yellow Cardinal
Common Names in French:
Cardinal Vert, Commandeur Huppé
Common Names in German:
Grünkardinal
Common Names in Japanese:
コクカンチョウ
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, riparian thickets • Maximum Elevation: 700 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: M?
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: It inhabits open woodland (including Prosopis woodland), savanna
, scrub
and shrubby steppe
, up to c.700 m.
Breeding occurs in the austral
spring
, with nests
containing three eggs
found in November.[1]
List of Habitats
:2.1Savanna - Dry
3.4Shrubland - Temperate
3.6Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
4.4Grassland - Temperate
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Tribe:
Emberizini
()
- Genus:
Gubernatrix
()
- Lesson 1837 OeuvresCompl.Buffon 8 p.295
- Specific name:
cristata
- (Vieillot) 1817 Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 13 p.531
- Scientific name: - Gubernatrix cristata (Vieillot) 1817
- Specific name:
cristata
- (Vieillot) 1817 Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 13 p.531
- Genus:
Gubernatrix
(
- Tribe:
Emberizini
(
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gubernatrix
There are approximately 2 species in this genus:
G. cristata (Yellow Cardinal) · G. pusilla
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Further Reading
- A bibliography of birds: with special reference to anatomy, behavior, biochemistry --. by Reuben Myron Strong Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1946 UND url p. 266.
- Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 291.
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896-1934. MUL url p. 282.
- Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. ENG url p. 101, p. 294.
- 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. 261, p. 398, p. 440.
- 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, 1938. ENG url p. 56, p. 57.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 815.
- Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. ENG url p. 291.
- 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. 520.
- Novitates Zoologicae. London. url p. 182.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. ENG url p. 472.
- Revista do Museu Paulista. So Paulo: Museu Paulista, 1895- POR url p. 322.
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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 26, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850343
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-560325
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13841960
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560325
- IUCN ID: 9531
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 5665
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
