Amadina erythrocephala

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,012 meters (0 to 9,882 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Amadina erythrocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Amadina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. erythrocephala (Paradise Sparrow) · A. erythrocephala erythrocephala (Paradise Sparrow) · A. fasciata (Cutthroat) · A. fasciata fasciata (Cut-Throat Weaver)

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Further Reading

• A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 82.
• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 248.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 312, p. 89.
• Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York: New York Zoological Society, 1897- url p. 170, p. 170, p. 210, p. 210.
• Bird notes. Brighton: Foreign Bird Club: 1902-1925. url , p. 105, p. 224, p. 292, p. 306, p. 364.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 18.
• Catalogue of African birds in the collection of R.B. Sharpe. London: Published by the Author, 1871. url p. 65.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 290.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 329.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 388.
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url , p. 175.
• How to sex cage birds (British and foreign), London, "The Feathered world", "Canary and cage-bird life"[1907] url p. 169, p. 61, p. 62.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 168, p. 29, p. 312, p. 313, p. 332, p. 350, p. 473, p. 481, p. 523, p. 552.
• Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa: consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, fitted out by "The by Andrew Smith; published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. 2 London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1838-1849. url .
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London, Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 248, p. 248.
• Matabele land and the Victoria Falls: a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates / edited by C.G. Oates. London: C.K. Paul, 1881. url p. 320, p. 371.
• Nature. London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc. url p. 490.
• Notes on the birds of Damara Land and the adjacent countries of South-west Africa. London, J. van Voorst, 1872. url .
• Notes on the birds of Damara land and the adjacent countries of the south-west Africa. By the late Charles John Anderson. .. Arranged and edited by John Henry Gurney, with some additional notes by the editor, and and introductory chapter containing a sketch of the author's life, abridge London, J. van Voorst1872. url p. 174.
• Pets and how to care for them, [New York]New York zoological park, 1921. url p. 297.
• Pets: their history and care. With illus. from life. New YorkHolt1917 url p. 196, p. 363.
• Pets; their history and care, New York, H. Holt and company, 1917. url , .
• Posthumous works, ed. by Oscar Riddle. Washington, Carnegie Inst., 1919. url .
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. .. [Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution], 1848-1932. url p. 89.
• Sketches of South African bird-life. By Alwin Haagner. .. and Robert H. Ivy. .. Illustrated by the camera. London, R. H. Porter; [etc., etc.]1908. url .
• South African journal of natural history. Pretoria, South African Biological Society. url p. 64.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url , , p. 124, p. 182, p. 192, p. 348, p. 354, p. 355, p. 370, p. 45, p. 75, p. 92.
• The Journal of the South African Ornithologists' Union. Pretoria. url , p. 10, p. 123, p. 231, p. 28, p. 48, p. 50, p. 82, p. 93.
• The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region, by G.E. Shelley. .. London, Published for the author by R.H. Porter (18 Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W.), 1896-1912. url p. 126, p. 127, p. 128.
• The birds of South Africa / by Edgar Leopold Layard. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1875-1884. url p. 849.
• The birds of South Africa, by Arthur C. Stark. .. London: R. H. Porter, 1900-1906. url , p. 118, p. 119, p. 314.
• The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London, 1906. url p. 487.
• The natural history of South Africa. by F.W. Fitzsimons. London, New York [etc.]Longmans, Green and co., 1923. url p. 10.
• Through Angola, a coming colony, by Colonel J. C. B. Statham. .. With 138 illustrations, 2 maps and 4 charts. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood & sons, 1922. url p. 278.
• Travels in the interior of South Africa, comprising fifteen years' hunting and trading; with journeys across the continent from Natal to Walvis Bay, and visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. By James Chapman. Illustrated with maps and numerous engravings. London: Bell & Daldy, 1868. url p. 427.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Amadina erythrocephala. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 06, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6956
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558531
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558531
• IUCN ID: 190228
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129039

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,361.560 meters (4,467.060 feet), Standard Deviation = 219.650 based on 9,074 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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