Overview
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Olive-headed Brush Finch, Olive-headed Brush-Finch, Yellow-headed Brush Finch, Yellow-headed brush-finch
Common Names in French:
Tohi à tête olive
Common Names in German:
Goldkopf-Buschammer
Common Names in Japanese:
オリーブヤブシトド
Description
Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Minimum Elevation: 1,300 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,200 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Eastern Slope Andes • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Ecology:
At the only currently known locality
, it seems to have adapted well
to degraded forest
, thick secondary vegetation (especially where
vines
and remnant forest trees are present) and bushy, overgrown
bean-fields at 1,300-2,500 m 4. Observations
have been made of a juvenile
with parents in June, adults
collecting
nesting material
in October4, and immature
birds
in November.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.7 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.1 Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
()
-
- Family:
Emberizidae
()
- Genus:
Atlapetes
()
- Wagler, 1831
- Specific name:
flaviceps
- Chapman 1912
- Scientific name: - Atlapetes flaviceps Chapman, 1912 Chapman 1912
- Specific name:
flaviceps
- Chapman 1912
- Genus:
Atlapetes
(
- Family:
Emberizidae
(
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007
Similar Species
Members of the genus Atlapetes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 42 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. albiceps (White-Headed Brush Finch) · A. albinucha (White-Naped Brush Finch) · A. albofrenatus (Moustached Brush Finch) · A. apertus (Plain-Breasted Brush Finch) · A. atricapillus (Stripe-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. blancae (Antioquia Brush-Finch) · A. brunneinucha (Chestnut-Capped Brush-Finch) · A. canigenis (Cuzco Brush-Finch) · A. citrinellus (Yellow Striped Brush Finch) · A. crassus (Choco Brush Finch) · A. flaviceps (Yellow-Headed Brush Finch) · A. forbesi (Apur?mac Brush-Finch) · A. fulviceps (Fulvous-Headed Brush Finch) · (Dusky-Headed Brush Finch) · A. gutturalis (Yellow-Throated Brush-Finch) · A. latinuchus (Rufous-Naped Brush Finch) · A. leucopis (White-Rimmed Brush Finch) · A. leucopterus (White-Winged Brush Finch) · A. leucopterus leucopterus (White-Winged Brush Finch) · A. melanocephalus (Santa Marta Brush Finch) · A. melanolaemus (Black-Faced Brush-Finch) · A. melanops (Black-Goggled Brush-Finch) · A. melanopsis (Black-Spectacled Brush Finch) · A. nationi (Rusty-Bellied Brush Finch) · A. nationi nationi (Rusty-Bellied Brush Finch) · A. pallidiceps (Pale-Headed Brush Finch) · A. pallidinucha (Pale-Naped Brush Finch) · A. personatus (Tepui Brush Finch) · A. personatus personatus (Tepui Brush Finch) · A. pileatus (Rufous-Capped Brush-Finch) · A. pileatus pileatus (Rufous-Capped Brush-Finch) · A. rufigenis (Rufous-Eared Brush Finch) · A. rufinucha (Rufous-Naped Brush Finch) · A. rufinucha rufinucha (Rufous-Naped Brush Finch) · A. schistaceus (Slaty Brush Finch) · A. schistaceus schistaceus (Slaty Brush-Finch) · A. seebohmi (Bay-Crowned Brush Finch) · A. semirufus (Ochre-Breasted Brush Finch) · (Vilcabamba Brush Finch) · A. torquatus (Stripe-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. tricolor (Tricoloured Brush Finch) · A. virenticeps (Green-Striped Brush Finch)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 162, p. 410.
- 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. 407.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 194.
- Natural history. New York url p. 1.
- The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , , , , , , , , , , , .
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 207, p. 205.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2008. Atlapetes flaviceps. 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 9, 2012.
- 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.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7348
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558803
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13977326
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558803
- IUCN ID: 193422
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2344
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2008. Atlapetes flaviceps. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
