Aimophila ruficeps

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• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid montane scrubs, arid lowland scrubs • Maximum Elevation: 2,400 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Upper subtropical: higher slopes, 500-1,600 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,793 meters (0 to 9,163 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
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Biology

Diet

Primarily: Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 2-5
• Number of Broods: 1, possibly 2

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aimophila ruficeps (Cassin, 1852) • Aimophila ruficips

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Chipping Sparrow, Rufous-Winged Sparrow

Members of the genus Aimophila

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. aestivalis (Bachman's Sparrow Sparrow) · A. aestivalis aestivalis (Bachman's Sparrow Sparrow) · A. botterii (Arizona Summer Finch) · A. botterii arizonae (Botteri's Sparrow) · A. botterii botterii (Arizona Summer Finch) · A. botterii petenica (Botteri's Sparrow) · A. botterii texana (Botteri's Sparrow) · A. carpalis (Bendire's Summer Finch) · A. carpalis carpalis (Rufous-Winged Sparrow) · A. cassinii (Cassin's Summer Finch) · A. humeralis (Black-Chested Sparrow) · A. mystacalis (Bridled Sparrow) · A. notosticta (Oaxaca Sparrow) · A. quinquestriata (Five Striped Sparrow) · A. quinquestriata quinquestriata (Five Striped Sparrow) · A. rufescens (Rusty Sparrow) · A. rufescens rufescens (Rusty Sparrow) · A. ruficauda (Stripe-Headed Sparrow) · A. ruficauda ruficauda (Stripe-Headed Sparrow) · A. ruficeps (Californis Rufous-Crowned Sparrow) · A. ruficeps canescens (Rufous-Crowned Sparrow) · A. ruficeps eremoeca (Rufous-Crowned Sparrow) · A. ruficeps ruficeps (Californis Rufous-Crowned Sparrow) · A. ruficeps rupicola (Rufous-Crowned Sparrow) · A. stolzmanni (Tumbes Sparrow) · A. strigiceps (Stripe-Capped Sparrow) · A. strigiceps strigiceps (Stripe-Capped Sparrow) · A. sumichrasti (Cinnamon-Tailed Sparrow)

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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. 16.
• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater. .. London, Witherby & co., 1912. url p. 573.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. url p. 464.
• Annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory / Pomona College. Claremont, Calif.: Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912- url p. 192.
• Bird notes afield; essays on the birds of the Pacific coast with a field check list, by Charles Keeler; illustrated with reproductions of photographs. San Franciso and New York, P. Elder and company[1907, c1906] url p. 190.
• Birds of California: an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies / Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1912, c1903. url .
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1916. url .
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; with fifty-six color plates, by R. Bruce Horsfall. 1923 New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. url p. 196.
• Breviora. 1967 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 3.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 1803, p. 1813, p. 1823, p. 1843, p. 1855, p. 1866, p. 1867, p. 1872, p. 1879, p. 246, p. 248, p. 250, p. 251, p. 679, p. 687, p. 690, p. 710, p. 919, p. 923, p. 930, p. 931, p. 940, p. 941, p. 942, p. 943, p. 946, p. 953, p. 954, p. 955.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. Washington: G.P.O., 1904-1916. url p. 107, p. 28.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 129.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 117, p. 131.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 528.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 342, p. 398, p. 492, p. 507, p. 516.
• 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. 600, p. 662, p. 667, p. 678, p. 683, p. 684, p. 685.
• 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. 698, p. 806.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 98, p. 99.
• 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. 220.
• First annual report of the Laguna Marine Laboratory at Laguna Beach, Orange County, California. Claremont, Calif., Dept. of Biology, Pomona College, 1912. url p. 192.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1976 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 225.
• 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. 284.
• 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. 354.
• Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California By Elliot Coues. Boston, D. Estes and Company, 1903. url p. 426.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 13 1984 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url map 111, page 209, p. 256, p. xviii.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1965 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 57, p. 6, p. 62.
• 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. url p. 588.
• North American birds eggs. New York: Dover Pub, [1965]. url p. 266.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 28.
• Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems / [edited by], Edward T. LaRoe. .. [et al.]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1995. url p. 522.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• 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

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7313
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730199
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2497311
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179377
• IUCN ID: 189495
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBX91090
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13237

Footnotes

1. Mean = 814.260 meters (2,671.457 feet), Standard Deviation = 567.310 based on 5,235 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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