Carpodacus mexicanus

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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid montane scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 3,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,793 meters (0 to 12,444 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats : 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry 3.7 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Biology

Diet

Almost Exclusively: Seeds. Lesser Quantities of: Insects.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Urban
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 2-6
• Length of Incubation : 12-14 days
• Days to Fledge : 11-19
• Number of Broods: 1-3

Migration

Some migrate

Taxonomy

Notes

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

Similar Species

Purple Finch, Cassin's Finch

Members of the genus Carpodacus

There are approximately 82 species in this genus:

C. amplus · C. californicus · C. casinii · C. cassini · C. cassinii (Cassin's Purple Finch) · C. crassirostris · C. dubius · C. edwardsi · C. edwardsii (Dark-Rumped Rosefinch) · C. edwardsii edwardsii (Dark-Rumped Rosefinch) · C. edwardsii rubicunda · C. eos (Stresemann's Rosefinch) · C. erithrinus · C. erythrinus (Scarlet Rosefinch) · C. erythrinus erythrinus (Scarlet Rosefinch) · C. erythrinus ferghanensis · C. erythrinus grebnitskii · C. erythrinus kubanensis · C. erythrinus roseatus · C. frontalis · C. grandis · C. haemorrhous · C. mcgregori · C. mexicanus (Mcgregor's House Finch) · C. mexicanus amplus · C. mexicanus centralis · C. mexicanus clementis (House Finch) · C. mexicanus coccineus · C. mexicanus frontalis (House Finch) · C. mexicanus griscomi · C. mexicanus mcgregori · C. mexicanus mexicanus (Mcgregor's House Finch) · C. mexicanus potosinus (House Finch) · C. mexicanus roseipectus · C. mexicanus ruberrimus (House Finch) · C. mongolicus · C. nipalensis (Dark-Breasted Rosefinch) · C. nipalensis kangrae · C. nipalensis nipalensis (Dark-Breasted Rosefinch) · C. pulcherrimus (Beautiful Rosefinch) · C. pulcherrimus argyrophrys · C. pulcherrimus pulcherrimus (Beautiful Rosefinch) · C. puniceus (Rose-Breasted Rosefinch) · C. puniceus puniceus (Rose-Breasted Rosefinch) · C. pupureus · C. purpureus (California Purple Finch) · C. purpureus californicus (Purple Finch) · C. purpureus nesophilus · C. purpureus purpureus (California Purple Finch) · C. rhodochlamys (Red-Mantled Rosefinch) · C. rhodochlamys grandis · C. rhodochlamys rhodochlamys (Red-Mantled Rosefinch) · C. rhodochrous (Pink-Browed Rosefinch) · C. rhodocolpus · C. rhodopeplus (Spot-Winged Rosefinch) · C. roborowskii (Tibetan Rosefinch) · C. rodochroa (Pink-Browed Rosefinch) · C. rodochrous (Pink-Browed Rosefinch) · C. rodopeplus (Spot-Winged Rosefinch) · C. rodopeplus rodopeplus (Spot-Winged Rosefinch) · C. rodopeplus verreauxii · C. roseus (Pallas's Rosefinch) · C. rubescens (Blanford's Rosefinch) · C. rubicilla (Caucasian Great Rosefinch) · C. rubicilla rubicilla (Caucasian Great Rosefinch) · C. rubicilla severtzovi · C. rubicilloides (Eastern Great Rosefinch) · C. rubicilloides lucifer · C. sanguinolentus · C. severtzovi · C. synoicus (Sinai Rosefinch) · C. synoicus synoicus · C. thura (White-Browed Rosefinch) · C. thura blythi · C. thura dubius · C. thura femininus · C. thura thura (White-Browed Rosefinch) · C. trifasciatus (Three-Banded Rosefinch) · C. vinaceus (Vinaceous Rosefinch) · C. vinaceus formosana · C. vinaceus formosanus · C. vinaceus vinaceus (Vinaceous Rosefinch)

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Further Reading

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• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 109, p. 123, p. 125, p. 158, p. 99.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 216.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 222.
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• Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896-1934. MUL url p. 287.
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• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. ENG url p. 107.
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• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg and Co., 1912. ENG url p. 564.
• Birds of the Pacific coast, including a brief account of the distribution and habitat of one hundred and eighteen birds that are more or less common to the Pacific coast states and British Columbia, many of which are found east by Willard Ayres Eliot; wi New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1923. ENG url p. 192.
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• 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. 222.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] ENG url p. 256, p. 270, p. 437.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed October 23, 2006. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 14 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• 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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Bird Studies Canada: Marsh Monitoring Program - Birds
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 1981-1985
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 2001-2005
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: 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 Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850123
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179198
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13750190
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179191
• IUCN ID: 53468
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBY04040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 162909

Footnotes

1. Mean = 702.010 meters (2,303.182 feet), Standard Deviation = 922.670 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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