Overview
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Big-Billed Bunting, Grosbeak Bunting, Wilkins' Finch, Wilkins's Finch
Common Names in French:
Nésospize De Wilkins
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: It is largely restricted
to areas which support
some Phylica arborea trees
, but also regularly occurs in tussock-grassland. The breeding season
is from December to February, with nests
located in clumps
of vegetation near ground-level. The average clutch-size is 1.86; chicks are initially fed invertebrates
, then Phylica seeds after a few days5.[1]
List of Habitats
:3.4Shrubland - Temperate
4.3Grassland - Subantarctic
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
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Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Nesospiza
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species and subspecies in this genus:
N. acunhae (Nightingale Finch) · N. acunhae acunhae (Nightingale Finch) · N. acunhae dunnei · N. acunhae fraseri · N. acunhae questi · N. questi · N. wilkinsi (Big-Billed Bunting) · N. wilkinsi dunnei · N. wilkinsi wilkinsi
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Bats from Guerrero, Jalisco and Oaxaca, Mexico. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1955. ENG url p. 712.
- BirdLife International 2006. Threatened Birds of the World 2006. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 04/05/2006.
- 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.
- 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 Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Karl Patterson Schmidt: anniversary volume in honor of his sixty-fifth birthday. [Chicago]1955. ENG url p. 712.
- Novitates Zoologicae. London. url p. 20, p. 48.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2006. Nesospiza wilkinsi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- 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 4, 2006.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850743
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561605
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561605
- IUCN ID: 14714
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7619
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
