Atlapetes pileatus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests, montaine evergreen forests, semihumid/humid montane scrubs • Minimum Elevation: 1,300 meters • Maximum Elevation: 3,400 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,430 meters (0 to 7,972 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
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Taxonomy

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

• A list of the genera of birds: with their synonyma and an indication of the typical species of each genus / by George Robert Gray. London: Printed and sold by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1841. url p. 60.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 39.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 459, p. 460, p. 461, p. 686.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 148 1978 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url article start, page 323, fig. 12, page 338, p. 361, p. 366.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 120.
• 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. 384.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 738, p. 740.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 292.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 292.
• Catalogue of the genera and subgenera of birds contained in the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855. url p. 75.
• 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. 680.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 190, p. 194.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 554.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 225.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]: Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 1096.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 9 1886 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 148, p. 664.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 381, p. 381.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 228.
• The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. London, B. Quaritch, 1916-1921. url .
• The birds of British Guiana: based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. .. / London: Bernard Quaritch. .., 1916-1921. url p. 471.
• 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 , , .
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 3 1951 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 641, p. 679.
• Wagler's Six ornithological memoirs from the 'Isis.' Edited by P.L. Sclater. London[Printed by Taylor and Francis]1884. url p. 133, p. 99.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Atlapetes pileatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 05, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7346
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730550
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13977326
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558813
• IUCN ID: 193436
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129692

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,288.980 meters (4,228.937 feet), Standard Deviation = 746.630 based on 239 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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