Campephilus guatemalensis

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical deciduous forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,550 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,401 meters (0 to 7,877 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Campephilus guatemalensis (Hartlaub, 1844)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 27-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Campephilus

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

C. gayaquilensis (Guayaquil Woodpecker) · C. guatemalensis (Pale-Billed Woodpecker) · C. guatemalensis guatemalensis (Pale-Billed Woodpecker) · C. haematogaster (Crimson-Bellied Woodpecker) · C. haematogaster haematogaster (Crimson-Bellied Woodpecker) · C. imperialis (Imperial Woodpecker) · C. leucopogon (Cream-Backed Woodpecker) · C. magellanicus (Magellanic Woodpecker) · C. melanoleucos (Crimson-Crested Woodpecker) · C. melanoleucos melanoleucos (Crimson-Crested Woodpecker) · C. pollens (Powerful Woodpecker) · C. pollens pollens (Powerful Woodpecker) · C. principalis (Cuban Ivory-Billed Woodpecker) · C. principalis principalis (Southern Giant Woodpecker) · C. robustus (Robust Woodpecker) · C. rubricollis (Red-Necked Woodpecker) · C. rubricollis rubricollis (Red-Necked Woodpecker)

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Further Reading

• A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 110.
• A manual of North American birds by Robert Ridgway. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1887. url .
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1896. url p. 281.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 281, .
• An early pleistocene avifauna from Inglis, Florida / by Gail Elaine Speaker Carr. 1981. url p. 123.
• 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. 176, p. 177, p. 179, p. 62, p. 834.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 416.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 331.
• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Costa Rica, by John Farwell Ferry. 1 1910 Chicago, 1910. url p. 266.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles B. Cory. 13 1919 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1919. url p. 465.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 473.
• 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. 399.
• Contents and index to volume 1 / Charles B. Cory. 1 1917 Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1917. url p. 349.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 204.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 20 2000 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 156.
• Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 271.
• List of the described birds of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies: not in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Institution. Washington, DC: The Institution, 1863? url p. 4.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum / [by G. R. Gray.] London: printed by the order of the Trustees, 1844-1867. url p. 57.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 206, p. 206.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 398, p. 406, p. 591, p. 629, p. 669, p. 739.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 465.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 150 1968 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 575, p. 577, p. 587, p. 597, p. 601.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 327.
• The Museum. Albion, N.Y.: W.F. Webb, [1894-1900] url p. 188.
• 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 , .
• Transactions of the. .. annual meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Pub. House, 1883-1901. url p. 220.
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 417.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Campephilus guatemalensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 30, 2007:

• Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, Bird Collection
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11545
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-686502
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554106
• IUCN ID: 197571
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 67138

Footnotes

1. Mean = 391.820 meters (1,285.499 feet), Standard Deviation = 849.980 based on 221 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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