Carduelis psaltria

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid montane scrubs, semihumid/humid montane scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 3,100 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,180 meters (0 to 10,433 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Biology

Diet

Almost Exclusively: Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Successional-scrub
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 4-5
• Length of Incubation : 12 days
• Number of Broods: 2?

Migration

Northern birds migrate

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Carduelis psaltria (Say, 1823) • Spinus Psaltria

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

American Goldfinch

Members of the genus Carduelis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 50 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. ambigua (Black-Headed Greenfinch) · C. ambigua ambigua (Black-Headed Greenfinch) · C. atrata (Black Siskin) · C. atriceps (Black-Capped Siskin) · C. barbata (Black-Chinned Siskin) · C. cannabina (Eurasian Linnet) · C. cannabina cannabina (Linnet) · C. carduelis (European Goldfinch) · C. carduelis carduelis (Eurasian Goldfinch) · C. chloris (Common Greenfinch) · C. citrinella (Alpine Citril Finch) · C. corsicana (Corsican Citril Finch) · C. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Siskin) · C. crassirostris crassirostris (Thick-Billed Siskin) · C. cucullata (Red Siskin) · C. dominicensis (Antillean Siskin) · C. flammea (Holboell's Redpoll) · C. flammea cabaret (Common Redpoll) · C. flavirostris (Twite) · C. flavirostris flavirostris (Twite) · C. hornemanni (Hornemann's Redpoll) · C. hornemanni hornemanni (Hoary Redpoll) · C. johannis (Warsangli Linnet) · C. lawrencei (Lawrence's Goldfinch) · C. magellanica (Hooded Siskin) · C. magellanica magellanica (Hooded Siskin) · C. monguilloti (Vietnamese Greenfinch) · C. notata (Black-Headed Siskin) · C. notata notata (Black-Headed Siskin) · C. olivacea (Olivaceous Siskin) · C. pinus (Northern Canary Bird) · C. pinus pinus (Northern Canary Bird) · C. psaltria (Green-Backed Goldfinch) · C. psaltria psaltria (Green-Backed Goldfinch) · C. siemiradzkii (Saffron Siskin) · C. sinica (Gray-Capped Greenfinch) · C. sinica sinica (Gray-Capped Greenfinch) · C. spinescens (Andean Siskin) · C. spinescens spinescens (Andean Siskin) · C. spinoides (Yellow-Breasted Greenfinch) · C. spinoides spinoides (Yellow-Breasted Greenfinch) · C. spinus (European Siskin) · C. tristis (Black-Winged Yellow Bird) · C. tristis pallidus (American Goldfinch) · C. tristis tristis (American Goldfinch) · C. uropygialis (Yellow-Rumped Siskin) · C. xanthogastra (Yellow-Bellied Siskin) · C. xanthogastra xanthogastra (Yellow-Bellied Siskin) · C. yarrellii (Yellow-Faced Siskin) · C. yemenensis (Yemeni Linnet)

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Further Reading

• A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. url p. 19.
• A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. 1 1905 Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url p. 474.
• A history of North American birds Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1874. url p. 478.
• Bird blow flies (Protocalliphora) in North America (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with notes on the Palearctic species / Curtis W. Sabrosky, Gordon F. Bennett, and Terry L. Whitworth. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989. url p. 234.
• Birds / by Spencer Fullerton Baird; with the co-operation of John Cassin and George N. Lawrence. Washington, D.C., 1858. url p. 422, p. 423.
• Birds of the Northwest: a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries / by Elliott Coues. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1874. url p. 116.
• Birds. Collected excerpts from v. 10 of Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. [n. p., 19--?] url , .
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 117, p. 132.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 124.
• 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. 752.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 246.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1976 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 184, p. 219.
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 13 1984 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url maps 93-94, page 180, p. xviii.
• Natural history of New York. .. Albany, D. Appleton & co. and Wiley & Putnam;1842-94. url p. 167.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithnological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. url p. 110, p. 50.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 105, p. 80.
• Report upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian / Washington [D.C.]: G.P.O., 1875-1889. url , p. 245.
• Report upon the ornithological collections made in portions of Nevade, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, by H.W. Henshaw. Washington, D.C., 1875 url p. 979.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 33.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 167.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 41 1981 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 267, p. 486, p. 520, p. 55, p. 617.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 19 1982 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 284.
• Wilson's American ornithology, with notes by Jardine. To which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson, by T.M. Brewer. New York, T.L. Magagnos, 1854. url .
• Wilson's American ornithology: with notes by Jardine; to which is added a synopsis of American birds, including those described by Bonaparte, Audubon, Nuttall, and Richardson / by T.M. Brewer. 1840 Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Co., 1840. url p. 707.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Carduelis psaltria. 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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; 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.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 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
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Alaska Museum of the North: MSB Birds Specimens
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7117
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179234
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481930
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179234
• IUCN ID: 197996
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBY06090
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13998

Footnotes

1. Mean = 694.560 meters (2,278.740 feet), Standard Deviation = 701.310 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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