Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Blue-headed Macaw
Common Names in French:
Ara de Coulon
Common Names in German:
Blaukopfara
Common Names in Japanese:
ヤマヒメコンゴウインコ
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 800 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Rio Madeira West • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Hill tropical: hills and lower slopes, 500-900 m; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
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)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
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)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
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)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
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)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
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)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
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)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
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)
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
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)
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
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)
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
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)
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
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)
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
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)
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Psittacimorphae
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)
- Huxley, 1867
- Order:
Psittaciformes
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)
- Wagler, 1830
- Family:
Psittacidae
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)
- Illiger, 1811
- Subfamily:
Psittacinae
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)
- Subfamily:
Psittacinae
(
- Family:
Psittacidae
(
- Order:
Psittaciformes
(
- Superorder:
Psittacimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Ara couloni P. L. Sclater, 1876
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ara
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 29 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. ambigua (Great Green Macaw) · A. ambigua ambigua (Great Green Macaw) · A. ambiguus (Great Green Macaw) · (Blue and Gold Macaw) · A. atwoodi (Bahia Rufous-Vented Ground-Cuckoo) · A. auricollis (Golden-Collared Macaw) · A. autocthones (Brown-Backed Parrotlet) · A. caninde (Wagler's Macaw) · A. chloroptera (Red and Green Macaw) · A. chloropterus (Red and Green Macaw) · A. couloni (Blue-Headed Macaw) · A. cubensis (Cuban Macaw) · A. erythrocephala (Jamaican Green-And-Yellow Macaw) · A. glaucogularis (Blue-Throated Macaw) · A. gossei (Yellow-Headed Macaw) · A. guadeloupensis (Lesser Antillean Macaw) · A. macao (Scarlet Macaw) · A. macao macao (Scarlet Macaw) · A. manilata (Red-Bellied Macaw) · A. maracana (Blue-Winged Macaw) · A. militaris (Military Macaw) · A. militaris militaris (Military Macaw) · A. nobilis (Red-Shouldered Macaw) · A. nobilis nobilis (Red-Shouldered Macaw) · A. rubrogenys (Red-Fronted Macaw) · A. severa (Chestnut-Fronted Macaw) · A. severa severa (Chestnut-Fronted Macaw) · A. severus (Chestnut-Fronted Macaw) · A. tricolor (Hispaniolan Macaw)
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Further Reading
- Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 18.
- Birds of northeastern Peru / Melvin A. Traylor. 35 1958 Chicago: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 98.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 46.
- Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 741.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other is by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1918 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1918. url p. 55.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 164.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 184.
- Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 102, p. 161.
- Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 65.
- Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 112.
- Feather mites of the Aralichus canestrinii (Trouessart) complex (Acarina, Pterolichidae) from New World parrots (Psittacidae). and conclusions to the study / Warren T. Atyeo, Tila M. Pérez. 62 1990 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1990. url p. 6.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 181, p. 373, p. 472, p. 581, p. 586.
- Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 339.
- Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. url p. 741.
- Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 55.
- The published writings of Philip Lutley Sclater, 1844-1896. Prepared under the direction of G. Brown Goode. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1896. url p. 46.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 97.
Notes
Contributors
- 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 9, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- 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.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 12351
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177664
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177664
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 148760
