Furnarius rufus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub, arid lowland scrubs, pastures and agricultural lands • Maximum Elevation: 3,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 983 meters (0 to 3,225 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) • Furnarius rufus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Furnarius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

F. cristatus (Crested Hornero) · F. figulus (White-Banded Hornero) · F. figulus figulus (White-Banded Hornero) · F. leucopus (Pacific Hornero) · F. leucopus leucopus (Pale-Legged Hornero) · F. minor (Lesser Hornero) · F. rufus (Rufous Hornero) · F. rufus rufus (Rufous Hornero) · F. torridus (Pale-Billed Hornero) · F. tricolor (Tricolour Hornero)

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Notes

Contributors

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3014
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-712884
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13759877
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560127
• IUCN ID: 210238
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 130029

Footnotes

1. Mean = 307.250 meters (1,008.038 feet), Standard Deviation = 361.770 based on 81 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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