Geositta poeciloptera

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Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: campo grasslands • Minimum Elevation: 700 meters • Maximum Elevation: 1,250 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Cerrado • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Ecology: It is rare to temporarily relatively common in open campo cerrado, where there are at most a few scattered trees , mainly at 500-1,200 m 5. It is often most numerous on recently burnt terrain, even where the ground is still smoking5,9, and has disappeared from some areas of São Paulo owing to a lack of fires in the cerrado8.

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List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Geobates poecilopterus (Wied-Neuwied

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Members of the genus Geositta

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. antarctica (Short Billed Miner) · G. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Miner) · G. cunicularia (Common Miner) · G. cunicularia cunicularia (Common Miner) · G. isabellina (Creamy Rumped Miner) · G. maritima (Grayish Miner) · G. peruviana (Coastal Miner) · G. peruviana peruviana (Coastal Miner) · G. poeciloptera (Campo Miner) · G. punensis (Puna Miner) · G. rufipennis (Rufous Banded Miner) · G. rufipennis rufipennis (Rufous-Banded Miner) · G. saxicolina (Dark Winged Miner) · G. tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Miner) · G. tenuirostris tenuirostris (Slender-Billed Miner)

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Further Reading

• 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.
• Cavalcanti, R. B. 1999. Bird species richness and conservation in the Cerrado region of central Brazil. Studies in Avian Biology 19: 244-249.
• Conservation International. 1999. Açoes prioritárias para a conservaçao da biodiversidade do Cerrado e Pantanal.
• Parker, T. A.; Willis, E. O. 1997. Notes on three tiny grassland flycatchers, with comments on the disappearance of South American fire-diversified savannas. Ornithological Monographs 48: 549-555.
• Ridgely, R. S.; Tudor, G. 1994. The birds of South America. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas.
• Sick, H. 1993. Birds in Brazil: a natural history. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
• Vasconcelos, M. F. de; D'Angelo Neto, S.; Maldonado-Coelho, M. 2004. New noteworthy occurrences of the Wied's Tyrant-manakin (Neopelma aurifrons) in Brazil. Ornitologia Neotropical 15: 547-548.
• Willis, E. O.; Oniki, Y. 1993. New and reconfirmed birds from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with notes on disappearing species. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 113: 23-34.
• da Silva, J. M. C. 1995. Birds of the Cerrado Region, South America. Steenstrupia 21: 69-92.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Geositta poeciloptera. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 16, 2007.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• 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.
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 425517
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-711550
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809138
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560217
• IUCN ID: 211071
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026104

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2009. Geositta poeciloptera. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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