Calcarius ornatus

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• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: northern temperate grasslands • Maximum Elevation: 2,100 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,848 meters (0 to 9,344 feet).[1]

Ecology:
List of Habitats :4.4Grassland - Temperate 4.5Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 8.1Desert - Hot

Biology

Diet

Primarily: Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Grassland
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 3-5
• Length of Incubation : 10-13 days
• Days to Fledge : 9-14
• Number of Broods: 2

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Calcarius ornatus /i> (Townsend, Jk) 1837

Notes

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

Similar Species

McCown 's Longspur

Members of the genus Calcarius

There are approximately 9 species in this genus:

C. lapponicus (Lapland Lark Bunting) · C. lapponicus alascensis (Lapland Longspur) · C. lapponicus coloratus · C. lapponicus lapponicus (Lapland Lark Bunting) · C. lapponicus subcalcaratus · C. mccowni · C. mccownii (Rufous-Winged Lark Bunting) · C. ornatus (Chestnut-Collared Longspur) · C. pictus (Smith's Longspur)

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Further Reading

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• A hand-book to the birds of Great Britain. By R. Bowdler Sharpe London, E. Lloyd, Limited, 1896-1897. ENG url p. 77.
• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater London, Witherby & co., 1912. ENG url p. 352.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. ENG url p. 405, p. 406.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Anglo-russkii biologicheskii slovar' / [avtory, I. N. Afanas'eva et al.; spetsial'nye nauch. redaktory, O. I. Chibisova i L. A. Koziar]. Moskva: Russkii iazyk, 1979. ENG url p. 371.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 458.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 258.
• Audubon and his journals, by Maria R. Audubon. With zoical and other notes by Elliott Coues. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1897. ENG url p. 532.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C., USA. 79.
• Bird guide: land birds east of the Rockies from parrots to bluebirds / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1916, c1909. ENG url p. 86.
• 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.
• Birds of New York / by Elon Howard Eaton. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910-1914. ENG url p. 284.
• Birds of the Rockies, by Leander S. Keyser... with eight full-page plates [four in color] by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; many illustrations in the text by Bruce Horsfall, and eight views of localities from photographs; with a c Chicago, A. C. McClurg and co., 1902. ENG url p. 333.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 155, p. 162, p. 163, p. 1635, p. 172, p. 1753, p. 1782, p. 256, p. 757.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. New Haven: The Museum, ENG url p. 105.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 490, p. 577, p. 599.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. ENG url p. 642.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 586.
• 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. ENG url p. 258.
• Check-list of North American birds: according to the canons of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. [s.l.]: The Union, 1889. ENG url p. 47.
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• Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. ENG url p. 152.
• First report of the state zoist: accompanied with Notes on the birds of Minnesota / by P.L. Hatch, Henry F. Nachtrieb, state zoist. Minneapolis: Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota: 1892. ENG url p. 453.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. ENG url p. 157.
• Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley, by Florence Merriam Bailey, with thirty-three full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and over six hundred cuts in the Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904. ENG url p. 328, p. 72, p. 79.
• History of the birds of Kansas. By N. S. Goss. Illustrating 529 birds. Topeka, Kan., G. W. Crane, 1891. ENG url p. 430, p. 436.
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Notes

Contributors

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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection (UCLA-Dickey): Bird specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850238
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179530
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13850292
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179530
• IUCN ID: 53542
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBXA6040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13634

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,274.160 meters (4,180.315 feet), Standard Deviation = 598.900 based on 1,474 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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