Haliastur sphenurus

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,093 meters (0 to 16,709 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.10     Marine Neritic - Estuaries   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Haliastur

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

H. indus (Brahminy Kite) · H. indus indus (Brahminy Kite) · H. sphenurus (Whistling Kite) · H. sphenurus sphenurus (Whistling Kite)

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Further Reading

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• A natural history of the ducks / 2 1923 Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company; 1922-1926. url p. 110, p. 265.
• A synopsis of the Accipitres (diurnal birds of prey): comprising species and subspecies described up to 1920, with their characters and distribution / London: Wheldon & Wesley, 1922. url .
• An Australian bird book: a pocket book for field use / by J. A. Leach; with introduction by Frank Tate; [photos by Ralph L. Miller; paintings by Ethel M. Paterson]. Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1911. url p. 81, p. 81.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 212, p. 215, p. 83.
• Aves polynesiae: a catalogue of the birds of the Polynesian subregion / by Lionel K. Wiglesworth. Berlin: R. Friedlaender & Sohn, 1891. url .
• Birds / by A.H. Evans. London: Macmillan, 1899 (1909 printing). url p. 168, p. 607.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1972 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 103, fig. 13.
• Catalogue of the Australian birds in the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.. .. by E.P. Ramsay. .. Sydney, W.A. Gullick, 1874-1898. url p. 36, p. 7.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 316.
• 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. url p. 282.
• Catalogue of the birds of the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the collection of the British Museum / by George Robert Gray. London, 1859. url p. 2.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 282.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. url p. 221.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 205, p. 298.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 162.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2009. Haliastur sphenurus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 02, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• OZCAM
• Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• , Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8466
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175473
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 5231722
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175473
• IUCN ID: 212744
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 134175

Footnotes

1. Mean = 655.050 meters (2,149.114 feet), Standard Deviation = 885.440 based on 107,880 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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