Toxostoma curvirostre

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid montane scrubs • Maximum Elevation: 3,300 meters • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,739 meters (0 to 12,267 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
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Biology

Diet

Mostly: Fruit Seeds

Lesser Quantities of: Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 3
• Length of Incubation : 12-15 days
• Days to Fledge : 11-18
• Number of Broods: 2, occasionally 3

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Toxostoma curvirostre (Swainson, 1827)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996

Similar Species

Bendire's Thrasher, Sage Thrasher

Members of the genus Toxostoma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. arenicola (Vizcaino Thrasher) · T. bendirei (Bendire's Thrasher) · T. cinereum (St. Lucas Thrasher) · T. cinereum cinereum (St. Lucas Thrasher) · T. crissale (Trinidad Thrasher) · T. curvirostre (Curve-Billed Thrasher) · T. curvirostre celsum (Curve-Billed Thrasher) · T. curvirostre curvirostre (Curve-Billed Thrasher) · T. curvirostre oberholseri (Curve-Billed Thrasher) · T. curvirostre palmeri (Curve-Billed Thrasher) · T. dorsale (Red-Vented Thrasher) · T. dorsale dorsale (Red-Vented Thrasher) · T. guttatum (Cozumel Thrasher) · T. lecontei (Le Conte's Thrasher) · T. lecontei arenicola (Le Conte's Thrasher) · T. lecontei lecontei (Le Conte's Thrasher) · T. longirostre (Long-Billed Thrasher) · T. longirostre longirostre (Long-Billed Thrasher) · T. longirostre sennetti (Long-Billed Thrasher) · T. ocellatum (Ocellated Thrasher) · T. redivivum (California Thrasher) · T. redivivum redivivum (California Thrasher) · T. redivivum sonomae (California Thrasher) · T. rufum (French Mocking-Bird) · T. rufum longicauda (Brown Thrasher) · T. rufum rufum (Brown Thrasher)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. url p. 15.
• A study of the incubation periods of birds; what determines their lengths, Denver, Col., The Kendrick-Bellamy Co., 1917. url .
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. url p. 465.
• Bird lore. New York City: Macmillan Co., c1899-c1940. url p. 311.
• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. url p. 311, p. 311.
• Birds of the Colorado Valley: a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology / by Elliott Coues. Washington: G.P.O., 1878. url p. 64.
• Birds that eat the cotton boll weevil: a report of progress / Washington: G.P.O., 1906. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 199, p. 200, p. 201, p. 202, p. 265, p. 389, p. 398, p. 400, p. 453, p. 463, p. 469, p. 72, p. 888, p. 937.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url fig. 12.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. Washington: G.P.O., 1904-1916. url p. 84.
• Cassinia. Philadelphia: Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, 1901- url p. 72.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 8.
• 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. url p. 86, p. 88.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 88.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 509.
• Check-list of North American birds, New York, American ornithologists' union, 1910. url .
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 426, p. 663, p. 678, p. 679.
• Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 572, p. 807.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 452.
• Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman. .. with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1912. url p. 216.
• Guide to taxidermy, by Chas. K. Reed and Chester A. Reed. Illustrated by drawings and photographs of mounted specimens by the authors and Mr. N. F. Stone. Worcester, Mass., C.K. Reed, 1914. url p. 297.
• Handbook of birds of the western United States: including the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley / by Florence Merriam Bailey. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915, c1902. url p. 439.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 13 1984 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 240.
• North American birds eggs. New York: Dover Pub, [1965]. url p. 311.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 19, p. 28.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 571.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url , p. 211, p. 213, p. 215, p. 220, p. 224, p. 225, p. 602, p. 97.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 597, p. 787.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 126, p. 212, p. 307.
• Sex and internal secretions. Contributors: A. Albert [and others] Foreword by George W. Corner. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961. url p. 1359, p. 1604.
• Significance of white markings in birds of the order Passeriformes / Berkeley: The University Press, 1910. url .
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 72 1922 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 45.
• Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 328.
• The American oologists' exchange price list of North American birds' eggs, 1922 / compiled by a committee of twenty-five prominent American oologists. Lacon, Ill.: R. Magoon Barnes, 1922. url p. 82.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 236, p. 328, p. 363, p. 424, p. 515.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 405.
• The Oo?logist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs. Albion, N.Y.: Frank H. Lattin, 1886- url p. 132.
• The birds of Texas; an annotated check list, Waco, Tex., The University, 1912. url .
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 8 1936 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url map 3, page 141.
• Two bird-lovers in Mexico by C. William Beebe. .. illustrated with photographs from life taken by the author. London, A. Constable & company, ltd.;1905. url p. 396.
• Two bird-lovers in Mexico, Boston, A. Constable & company, ltd., 1905. url .
• Two bird-lovers in Mexico, by C. William Beebe. Illustrated with photographs from life taken by the author. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1905. url p. 396.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 11 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 676.
• Western birds, by Harriet Williams Myers. New York, The Macmillan company, 1922. url p. 300.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Toxostoma curvirostre. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• 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 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• 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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• 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: 5114
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178638
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13755412
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178637
• IUCN ID: 246741
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBK06070
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178248

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,110.220 meters (3,642.454 feet), Standard Deviation = 563.360 based on 17,814 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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