Aratinga finschi

• 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

Habitat

Prefers open country with scattered trees and agricultural fields .

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,600 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,412 meters (0 to 4,633 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Fruit and flowers from Papillionoideae, Inga, and Ficus.

Reproduction

Nests in natural cavities, such as rotten stump , masses of epiphytes and dead palm trees . Pairs sometimes breed in proximity to each other. Generally lays 2-4 eggs .

Behavior

Extremely social, flying and foraging in large groups.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Aratinga finschi (Salvin, 1871)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Salvin, O. Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies from Tropical America. Salvin, O. (1871) Descriptions of new Species of Butterflies from Tropical America. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 7 (42): 412-416 ., 1871.

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aratinga

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 38 species and subspecies in this genus:

(Blue-Crowned Parakeet) · A. acuticaudata acuticaudata (Blue-Crowned Parakeet) · (Peach-Fronted Parakeet) · A. aurea aurea (Peach-Fronted Parakeet) · A. auricapilla (Golden-Capped Parakeet) · A. auricapillus (Golden-Capped Parakeet) · A. auricapillus auricapillus (Golden-Capped Parakeet) · A. brevipes (Socorro Parakeet) · A. cactorum (Caatinga Parakeet) · A. cactorum cactorum (Caatinga Parakeet) · A. canicularis (Orange-Fronted Parakeet) · A. canicularis canicularis (Orange-Fronted Parakeet) · A. chloroptera (Hispaniolan Parakeet) · A. chloroptera chloroptera (Hispaniolan Parakeet) · A. erythrogenys (Cherry-Headed Conure) · A. euops (Cuban Parakeet) · A. finschi (Crimson-Fronted Parakeet) · A. guarouba (Golden Parakeet) · A. holochlora (Green Parakeet) · A. holochlora holochlora (Green Parakeet) · A. jandaya (Jandaya Parakeet) · A. labati (Guadeloupe Parakeet) · (White-Eyed Parakeet) · A. leucophthalmus (White-Eyed Parakeet) · A. leucophthalmus leucophthalmus (White-Eyed Parakeet) · (Mitred Parakeet) · A. mitrata mitrata (Mitred Parakeet) · A. nana (Olive-Throated Parakeet) · A. nana nana (Olive-Throated Parakeet) · A. pertinax (Brown-Throated Parakeet) · A. pertinax pertinax (Brown-Throated Parakeet) · A. rubritorquis (Red-Throated Parakeet) · A. solstitialis (Sun Parakeet) · A. solstitialis solstitialis (Sun Parakeet) · A. strenua (Pacific Parakeet) · (Scarlet-Fronted Parakeet) · A. wagleri wagleri (Scarlet-Fronted Parakeet) · A. weddellii (Dusky-Headed Parakeet)

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Further Reading

• Birds of Volcán de Chiriquí, Panama. 36 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 511.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 152.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 78 1935 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 275, p. 312, p. 314.
• 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. 57.
• 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. 269.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 186.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 102, p. 133, p. 136, p. 151.
• 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. 106, p. 109, p. 128, p. 66, p. 143.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices JNCC url p. 80.
• 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 figs. 34-56 , p. 11, p. 12, p. iii.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 19.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 57.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 447.
• The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , .
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 98.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Aratinga finschi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. and lt;www.iucnredlist.org and gt;. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Aratinga finschi. 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 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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• 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.
• 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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10649
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177681
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14463995
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177681
• IUCN ID: 192355
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 67390

Footnotes

1. Mean = 988.040 meters (3,241.601 feet), Standard Deviation = 632.050 based on 374 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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