Geotrygon chrysia

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• Description
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical deciduous forests • Maximum Elevation: 500 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
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Biology

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 26-May-2005

Similar Species

Ruddy Quail-Dove

Members of the genus Geotrygon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species and subspecies in this genus:

G. albifacies (White-Faced Quail Dove) · G. albifacies albifacies (White-Faced Quail Dove) · G. caniceps (Grey-Fronted Quail-Dove) · G. carrikeri (Vera Cruz Quail Dove) · G. chiriquensis (Rufous-Reasted Quail-Dove) · G. chrysia (Key West Quail Dove) · G. costaricensis (Buff-Fronted Quail Dove) · G. frenata (White-Throated Quail Dove) · G. frenata frenata (White-Throated Quail Dove) · G. goldmani (Russet-Crowned Quail Dove) · G. goldmani goldmani (Russet-Crowned Quail Dove) · G. lawrencii (Purplish-Backed Quail Dove) · G. leucometopia (White-Fronted Quail-Dove) · G. linearis (White-Faced Quail Dove) · G. montana (Ruddy Quail Dove) · G. montana montana (Ruddy Quail-Dove) · G. mystacea (Bridled Quail Dove) · G. saphirina (Sapphire Quail Dove) · G. saphirina saphirina (Sapphire Quail Dove) · G. veraguensis (Olive-Backed Quail Dove) · G. versicolor (Crested Quail-Dove) · G. violacea (Violaceous Quail Dove) · G. violacea violacea (Violaceous Quail-Dove)

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Further Reading

• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1896. url p. 216.
• A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 216.
• American bird magazine, ornithology. Worcester, Mass.: C.K. Reed, 1903-1906. url p. 217.
• American forests. Washington [etc.]American Forestry Association [etc.] url p. 621.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 158, p. 221, p. 391, p. 392, p. 474.
• Annual report of the New York Zoological Society. New York: New York Zoological Society, 1897- url p. 197.
• Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. url , .
• Birds / by A.H. Evans. London: Macmillan, 1899 (1909 printing). url p. 336, p. 606.
• Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush, Cincinnati [etc.]American Book Co.[c1898] url , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 205, p. 468, p. 473.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 59 1915 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 143, figs. 10-11, page 436.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 135.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 801.
• 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 Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and othe 13 1942 Chicago, 1918- url p. 598, p. 599.
• Catalogue of scientific papers (1800-1900) Comp. by the Royal society of London. Cambridge, C. J. Clay and sons, 1867-1902; url p. 798.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. CambridgeUniversity Press1908-14 url p. 798.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 571.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 157.
• Check-list of North American birds, New York, American ornithologists' union, 1910. url .
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 266.
• 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. 263, p. 802.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 129.
• Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman. .. with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1912. url p. 270, p. 270, p. 340, p. 340.
• Color key to North American birds; with bibliographical appendix. New York, D. Appleton, 1912. url , .
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 296.
• Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. url .
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 709.
• Insects of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. New York, The Academy. url p. 404.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 48.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Geotrygon chrysia. 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.
• BirdLife International 2009. Geotrygon chrysia. 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
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• 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 February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177179
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809138
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177179
• IUCN ID: 211145
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNPB09020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 147537

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