Cacicus melanicterus

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 950 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,004 meters (0 to 6,575 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cacicus Melanicteris • Cacicus melanicteris (Bonaparte) • Cacicus melanicteris (Bonaparte) , 1825 • Cacicus melanicterus (Bonaparte, 1825)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cacicus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. cela (Yellow-Rumped Cacique) · C. cela cela (Yellow-Rumped Cacique) · C. chrysonotus (Southern Mountain Cacique) · C. chrysonotus chrysonotus (Southern Mountain Cacique) · C. chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Cacique) · C. haemorrhous (Red-Rumped Cacique) · C. holosericeus (Yellow-Billed Cacique) · C. koepckeae (Selva Cacique) · C. leucoramphus (Mountain Cacique) · C. melanicterus (Yellow-Winged Cacique) · C. sclateri (Ecuadorian Black Cacique) · C. solitarius (Solitary Black Cacique) · C. uropygialis (Scarlet-Rumped Cacique) · C. uropygialis uropygialis (Scarlet-Rumped Cacique)

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Further Reading

• 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. 740.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 148.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Cacicus melanicterus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7980
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558968
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14375155
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558968
• IUCN ID: 196755
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130084

Footnotes

1. Mean = 307.620 meters (1,009.252 feet), Standard Deviation = 473.600 based on 217 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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