Calocitta formosa

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

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

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Omnivorous .

Behavior

Travels in noisy flocks of 5 to 10.

The call of the White-Throated Magpie Jay is often confused with that of parrots.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Calocitta formosa (Swainson, 1827)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calocitta

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. colliei (Black-Throated Magpie-Jay) · C. formosa (White-Throated Magpie Jay) · C. formosa formosa (White-Throated Magpie-Jay)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 293.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 350.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 350, .
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 105, p. 141, p. 151, p. 155, p. 70, p. 90, p. 92, p. 96.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , .
• Birds of western and northwestern Mexico. Boston, Published by the Society, 1874. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 10, p. 24, p. 295, p. 296, p. 7, p. 758.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 359.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Guatemala, by Ned Dearborn. 1 1907 Chicago, 1907. url p. 110.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1934 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934. url p. 11, p. 12, p. 13.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 88.
• 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. 501.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 226, p. 228.
• Contents and index to volume 1 / Charles B. Cory. 1 1917 Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1917. url p. vii.
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 305, p. 71.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 173.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 480, p. 544, p. 546, p. 723.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 77.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London, Printed for the Society, 1896. url p. 296, p. 296, p. 687, p. 687.
• Notes on a collection of birds from Michoacan, Mexico, by Emmet R. Blake and Harold C. Hanson. 22 1942 [Chicago]1942. url p. 556.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 219, p. 222, p. 226.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 233.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 8 1885 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 107, p. 153, p. 374, p. 392, p. 393, p. 626, p. 63, p. 630, p. 638, p. 65, p. 669.
• 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. 101, p. 126, p. 133, p. 141, p. 151, p. 154, p. 155, p. 74, p. 85, p. 90, p. 98.
• Science-gossip. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, [1894]-1902. url p. 280.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 13 1875 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 10, p. 344, p. 7.
• Smithsonian year. 1965 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1976. url p. 182.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 73.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 241, p. 49, p. 503.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 283.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 42 1961 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 127, fig. 24, page 135, p. 52.
• 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 published writings of George Newbold Lawrence, 1844-1891 / by L. S. Foster. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1892. url p. 69.
• Transactions of the. .. annual meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Pub. House, 1883-1901. url p. 222.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Calocitta formosa. 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 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 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 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: 3957
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558993
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558993
• IUCN ID: 197205
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130131

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