Brotogeris jugularis

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Prefers open areas with scattered trees , semi-open spaces, and the edge of forests .

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: L?

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,701 meters (0 to 15,423 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.2     Savanna - Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Feeds on fruit and seeds from Ficus trees , and other trees such as Cecropia and Ceibo, as well as flowers and nectar from Poro, Guaba, and Balsa trees.

Reproduction

As with many other parakeets, preferred nesting sites are empty termite nests . Several pairs may nest in a large termite nest or the same dead tree . Each pair makes their own cavity .

Behavior

Forms flocks of up to 50 individuals, but during the breeding season , forms pairs or smaller groups.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Brotogeris jugularis (Muller, 1776) • Brotogeris jugularis (Müller, 1776) • Brotogeris jugularis (Statius Muller, 1776)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brotogeris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. chiriri (Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet) · B. chiriri chiriri (Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet) · B. chrysoptera (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysoptera chrysoptera (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysopterus chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. cyanoptera (Cobalt-Winged Parakeet) · B. cyanoptera cyanoptera (Cobalt-Winged Parakeet) · B. jugularis (Orange-Chinned Parakeet) · B. jugularis jugularis (Orange-Chinned Parakeet) · B. pyrrhoptera (Gray-Cheeked Parakeet) · B. pyrrhopterus (Gray-Cheeked Parakeet) · B. sanctithomae (Tui Parakeet) · B. sanctithomae sanctithomae (Tui Parakeet) · B. tirica (Plain Parakeet) · B. versicolurus (Canary-Winged Parakeet) · B. versicolurus versicolurus (Canary-Winged Parakeet)

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Further Reading

• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 203, p. 592, p. 596.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 100, p. 102, p. 105, p. 124, p. 131, p. 140, p. 152, p. 153, p. 333, p. 69, p. 88, p. 89, p. 95, p. 97, p. 98, p. 98, p. 99.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 183, p. 186.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 225.
• 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. 78.
• 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. 275.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 207.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 128, p. 199.
• 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. 179, p. 190, p. 229, p. 99.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 116.
• Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. url p. 15.
• Field book of birds of the Panama Canal Zone; a description on the habits, call notes and songs of the birds of the Panama Canal Zone, for the purpose of identifying them. Many of these birds are also common in Central and South America. By Bertha Bement Sturgis; with over 100 illustrations, colour plates, pen-and-ink sketches, and a map of the Panama Canal Zone. London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1928. url , .
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 580, p. 580.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithnological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. url p. 6, p. 6.
• Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 19.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 132, p. 132, p. 191, p. 191.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 576.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 405, p. 43, p. 519, p. 578, p. 630.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 78.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 124, p. 131, p. 140, p. 152, p. 153, p. 157, p. 73, p. 84, p. 88, p. 97.
• Report on the progress and condition of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30. .. / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington: G.P.O., 1907-1951. url p. 126, p. 201.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 47 1905 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 518, p. 595, p. 64, p. 86.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 15, p. 26, p. 27, p. 38, p. 42.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 71.
• The birds of El Salvador, by Donald R. Dickey and A. J. Van Rossem. 23 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 206.
• 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 , , .
• The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 url , , , .
• 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. 100, p. 100.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Brotogeris jugularis. 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. Brotogeris jugularis. 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 14, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 40 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.
• Zoo Ave, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 14, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10703
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-714582
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177741
• IUCN ID: 196068
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 67392

Footnotes

1. Mean = 235.330 meters (772.080 feet), Standard Deviation = 385.950 based on 137,128 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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