Atlapetes albiceps

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• Notes

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, gallery forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Manabi-Tumbes • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Hill tropical: hills and lower slopes, 500-900 m; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.5Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Atlapetes

There are approximately 80 species in this genus:

A. albiceps (White-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. albinucha (White-Naped Brush-Finch) · A. albinucha brunnescens · A. albinucha gutturalis · A. albinucha parvirostris · A. albofrenatus (Moustached Brush-Finch) · A. albofrenatus meridae · A. apertus (Plain-Breasted Brush Finch) · A. atricapillus (Stripe-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. blancae · A. brunneinucha (Chestnut-Capped Brush Finch) · A. brunneinucha apertus · A. brunneinucha elsae · A. canigenis · A. citrinellus (Yellow-Striped Brush-Finch) · A. crassus · A. flaviceps (Yellow-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. forbesi · A. fulviceps (Fulvous-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. fuscoolivaceus (Dusky-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. gutturalis · A. gutturalis brunnescens · A. latinucha · A. latinuchus · A. latinuchus caucae · A. latinuchus chugurensis · A. latinuchus elaeoprorus · A. latinuchus latinuchus · A. latinuchus spodionotus · A. leucopis (White-Rimmed Brush-Finch) · A. leucopterus (White-Winged Brush-Finch) · A. leucopterus dresseri · A. leucopterus leucopterus (White-Winged Brush-Finch) · A. leucopterus paynteri · A. melanocephalus (Santa Marta Brush-Finch) · A. melanolaemus · A. melanops · A. melanopsis (Black-Spectacled Brush-Finch) · A. nationi (Rusty-Bellied Brush-Finch) · A. nationi brunneiceps · A. nationi nationi (Rusty-Bellied Brush-Finch) · A. pallidiceps (Pale-Headed Brush-Finch) · A. pallidinucha (Pale-Naped Brush-Finch) · A. pallidinucha pallidinucha · A. pallidinucha papallactae · A. paynteri · A. personatus (Tepui Brush-Finch) · A. personatus duidae · A. personatus personatus (Tepui Brush-Finch) · A. pileatus (Rufous-Capped Brush Finch) · A. pileatus dilutus · A. pileatus pileatus (Rufous-Capped Brush Finch) · A. rufigenis (Rufous-Eared Brush-Finch) · A. rufigenis forbesi · A. rufinucha (Rufous-Naped Brush-Finch) · A. rufinucha latinuchus · A. rufinucha melanolaemus · A. rufinucha rufinucha (Rufous-Naped Brush-Finch) · A. schistaceus (Slaty Brush-Finch) · A. schistaceus castaneifrons · A. schistaceus fumidus · A. schistaceus schistaceus (Slaty Brush Finch) · A. schistaceus taczanowskii · A. schistaceus taczoanowskii · A. schistaceus tamae · A. seebohmi (Bay-Crowned Brush-Finch) · A. seebohmi simonsi · A. semirufus (Ochre-Breasted Brush-Finch) · A. semirufus denisei · A. semirufus majusculus · A. semirufus semirufus · A. terborghi (Vilcabamba Brush-Finch) · A. torquatus (Stripe-Headed Brush Finch) · A. torquatus assimilis · A. torquatus poliophrys · A. torquatus torquatus · A. tricolor (Tricoloured Brush-Finch) · A. tricolor crassus · A. tricolor nov · A. virenticeps (Green-Striped Brush-Finch)

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Further Reading

• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 323, p. 364, p. 367.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• 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.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 21, 2007.
• 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.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850329
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558799
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13850217
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558799
• IUCN ID: 53617
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129603

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