Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Kuifbobwhite
Common Names in English:
Crested Bobwhite
Common Names in French:
Colin Huppé
Common Names in German:
Haubenwachtel
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Head : Crest : brown mixed with buffy Face : pale gray Eyebrow Line : rufous Eye Stripe: pale gray Neck: black with white spots Throat : rufous Body: Upperparts: brown mixed with buffy.Adult Female: Head: buffy Crest: brown mixed with buffy Face: pale gray Eyebrow Line: rufous Eye Stripe: pale gray Neck: black with white spots Throat: streaked with black Body: Upperparts: brown mixed with buffy.Adult Male: Head: Crest: brown mixed with buffy Face: pale gray Eyebrow Line: rufous Eye Stripe: pale gray Neck: black with white spots Throat: rufous Body: Breast: spotted with white Underparts: spotted and barred with black and cinnamon-rufous Upperparts: brown mixed with buffy.
Habitat
Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, low seasonally wet grasslands, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 1,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:3.5Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
4.6Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded
14.6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Galliformes
()
- Fowls, Gallinaceous Birds
- Genus:
Colinus
()
- Goldfuss 1820 Handb.Zool. 2 p.220
- Specific name:
cristatus
- (Linnaeus) 1766 Syst.Nat.ed.12 p.277
- Scientific name: - Colinus cristatus (Linnaeus) 1766
- Specific name:
cristatus
- (Linnaeus) 1766 Syst.Nat.ed.12 p.277
- Genus:
Colinus
(
- Order:
Galliformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 06-Aug-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Colinus
There are approximately 54 species in this genus:
C. coyolcos · C. cristatus (Crested Bobwhite) · C. cristatus badius · C. cristatus barnesi · C. cristatus bogotensis · C. cristatus cristatus (Crested Bobwhite) · C. cristatus decoratus · C. cristatus horvathi · C. cristatus leucopogon · C. cristatus leucotis · C. cristatus littoralis · C. cristatus mariae · C. cristatus mocquerysi · C. cristatus panamensis · C. cristatus parvicristatus · C. cristatus sonnini · C. godmani · C. graysoni · C. leucopogon (Spot-Bellied Bobwhite) · C. leucopogon dickeyi · C. leucopogon hypoleucus · C. leucopogon incanus · C. leucopogon leucopogon · C. leucopogon leylandi · C. leucopogon sclateri · C. nigrogularis (Black-Throated Bobwhite) · C. nigrogularis caboti · C. nigrogularis nigrogularis (Black-Throated Bobwhite) · C. nigrogularis persiccus · C. nigrogularis segoviensis · C. pectoralis · C. philippinus · C. ridgwayi · C. virginianus (Virginia Partridge) · C. virginianus aridus · C. virginianus atriceps · C. virginianus coyolcos · C. virginianus cubanensis · C. virginianus floridanus (Northern Bobwhite) · C. virginianus godmani · C. virginianus graysoni · C. virginianus harrisoni · C. virginianus insignis · C. virginianus insulanus · C. virginianus maculatus · C. virginianus minor · C. virginianus nigripectus · C. virginianus pectoralis · C. virginianus ridgwayi (Northern Bobwhite) · C. virginianus salvini · C. virginianus taylori (Northern Bobwhite) · C. virginianus texanus (Northern Bobwhite) · C. virginianus thayeri · C. virginianus virginianus (Virginia Partridge)
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Further Reading
- Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 104, p. 107.
- 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.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 355, p. 360, p. 363, p. 470, p. 472, p. 473, p. 478, p. 481.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 348.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Chicago, 1918- ENG url p. 253, p. 259.
- Contents and index to volume 12, numbers 1 to 19, Zoological series / Wilfred H. Osgood. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. ENG url p. 508.
- Postilla. New Haven, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1950-2004. ENG url p. 14.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. Colinus cristatus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 20, 2007.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854629
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-677628
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14099100
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175869
- IUCN ID: 47106
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 134994
