Junco aikeni

• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Description

Family Fringillidae

A Family of seed-eating, small to moderately large passerine birds that have strong , stubby beaks, which in some species can be quite large. They have a bouncing flight, alternating flapping with gliding on closed wings. Most sing well.

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Junco

There are approximately 45 species in this genus:

J. aikeni · J. alticola · J. bairdi · J. caniceps (Grey-Headed Junco) · J. caniceps caniceps (Grey-Headed Junco) · J. caniceps dorsalis · J. caniceps hyemalis · J. fulvescens · J. hyemalis (Slate Coloured Junco) · J. hyemalis aikeni (White-Winged Junco) · J. hyemalis caniceps (Gray-Headed Junco) · J. hyemalis carolinensis · J. hyemalis cismontanus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis dorsalis · J. hyemalis hyemalis (Slate Coloured Junco) · J. hyemalis insularis · J. hyemalis mearnsi (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis montanus · J. hyemalis oreganus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis oreganus-shufeldti · J. hyemalis oregonus · J. hyemalis pinosus (Dark-Eyed Junco) · J. hyemalis pontilis · J. hyemalis shufeldti · J. hyemalis thurberi · J. hyemalis townsendi · J. insularis (Guadalupe Junco) · J. mearnsi · J. oreganus · J. oreganus hyernalis · J. oreganus mearnsi · J. oreganus montanus · J. oreganus pinosus · J. oreganus shufeldti · J. oreganus thurberi · J. oreganus x · J. phaenotus · J. phaeonotus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. phaeonotus alticola · J. phaeonotus bairdi · J. phaeonotus fulvescens · J. phaeonotus palliatus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. phaeonotus phaeonotus (Yellow-Eyed Junco) · J. siemsseni · J. vulcani (Volcano Junco)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater London, Witherby & co., 1912. ENG url p. 374, p. 375.
• A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. ENG url p. 422.
• Bird guide: land birds east of the Rockies from parrots to bluebirds / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1916, c1909. ENG url p. 103.
• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. ENG url p. 442.
• Birds of the Colorado Valley: a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology / by Elliott Coues. Washington: G.P.O., 1878. ENG url p. 697.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 1021, p. 1025, p. 1075, p. 160, p. 24, p. 262, p. 273, p. 277, p. 652.
• Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, [1876-1883] ENG url p. 204.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. ENG url p. 545.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 649.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 345.
• Color key to North American birds, by Frank M. Chapman with upward of 800 drawings by Chester A. Reed, B. S. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1903. ENG url p. 240, p. 279, p. 300.
• Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley, by Florence Merriam Bailey, with thirty-three full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and over six hundred cuts in the Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1904. ENG url p. 345.
• History of the birds of Kansas. By N. S. Goss. Illustrating 529 birds. Topeka, Kan., G. W. Crane, 1891. ENG url p. 465, p. 686.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 644.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 58, p. 6, p. 63.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. ENG url p. 748.
• North American birds eggs, by Chester A. Reed...illustrating the eggs of nearly every species of North American birds. New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1904. ENG url p. 344.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, ENG url p. 306.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. ENG url p. 124, p. 190, p. 22.
• Proceedings of the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. Lincoln, [1900-15] ENG url p. 28, p. 57, p. 72.
• Report on the progress and condition of the U.S. National Museum for the year ending June 30 / Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. Washington: G.P.O., 1907-1951. ENG url p. 201.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 179, p. 651.
• The Canadian bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred north American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1914. ENG url p. 459.
• The Ohio journal of science. [Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University and the Ohio Academy of Science] ENG url p. 204.
• The Popular science monthly. [New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.] ENG url p. 165.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. ENG url p. 246.
• The bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1915. ENG url p. 348, p. 459.
• The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Chicago, 1909. ENG url p. 599, p. 599, p. 756, p. 756.
• The birds of Wyoming / By Wilbur C. Knight. Laramie, Wyo.: Wyoming Experiment Station, 1902. ENG url p. 287.
• The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. ENG url p. 274.
• Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Topeka, Kan.: W.Y. Morgan, 1903- ENG url p. 173.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas. ENG url p. 352.
• Verhandlungen der Ornithologischen Gesellschaft in Bayern. M: E. Reinhardt, 1904-1989. GER url p. 223.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 25, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 13766
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14738692
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2138097

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