Overview
Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Grijze Junco
Common Names in English:
Baird's junco, Carolina junco, Dark-eyed Jonco, Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Junco, Laguna Hanson junco, Montana junco, Nevada junco, Oregon Junco, pink-sided junco, Point Pinos junco, red-backed junco, Ridgway's junco, Shufeldt's junco, Slate coloured Junco, Slate-colored Junco, Thurber's junco, Townsend's junco, White-winged Junco
Common Names in French:
Junco Ardois, junco ardoisé, junco ardoisé
Common Names in German:
Junko, Winter-Junco
Common Names in Italian:
Junco occhiscuri
Common Names in Japanese:
ユキヒメドリ
Common Names in Spanish:
Cingolo pizarroso, Junco ojo oscuro, Junco Pizarroso
Common Names in Swedish:
Snöfågel
Description
Physical Description
Adult Slate-Colored Female: Head : Hood : brownish gray Body: Upperparts: brownish gray.Adult Slate-Colored Male: Head: Hood: dark gray Body: Upperparts: gray Tail: gray with white outer feathers.
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests • Minimum Elevation: 1,800 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,800 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Middle montane: mountains, middle range, 1,600-2,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,793 meters (0 to 12,444 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
()
-
- Family:
Emberizidae
()
- Genus:
Junco
()
- Wagler, 1831
- Specific name:
hyemalis
- Scientific name: - Junco hyemalis
- Specific name:
hyemalis
- Genus:
Junco
(
- Family:
Emberizidae
(
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus) • Junco hyemalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Junco
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:
J. caniceps (Gray-Headed Junco) · J. caniceps caniceps (Gray-Headed Junco) · (Slate Coloured Junco) · J. hyemalis aikeni (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis caniceps (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis cismontanus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis hyemalis (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis mearnsi (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis oreganus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis pinosus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. insularis (Guadalupe Junco) · J. phaeonotus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. phaeonotus palliatus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. phaeonotus phaeonotus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. vulcani (Volcano Junco)
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Notes
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
- Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
- Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 1981-1985
- Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 2001-2005
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
- Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
- EMAN Provider: PIROP (Shipboard Surveys)
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
- Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Alaska Museum of the North: University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology Bird Collection
- University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7276
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-179412
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481680
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179410
- IUCN ID: 217074
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBXA5020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13630
Footnotes
- Mean = 495.920 meters (1,627.034 feet), Standard Deviation = 872.260 based on 20,000 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
