Junco bairdi

• 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)

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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, 1887. ENG url p. 425.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 293.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 1133, p. 274, p. 276, p. 294, p. 649.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 147, p. 223.
• 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. 550, p. 551.
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. ENG url p. 618.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 653.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 347.
• Check-list of North American birds: according to the canons of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. [s.l.]: The Union, 1889. ENG url p. 51.
• 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. ENG url p. 240.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 109, p. 472, p. 99.
• 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. 264.
• Pacific coast avifauna / Cooper Ornithological Club of California. Santa Clara, Calif.: The Club, 1900-1974. ENG url p. 22.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, The Academy. ENG url p. 248, p. 301.
• 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. 276.
• The ornithology of Illinois. Part I. Descriptive catalogue. By Robert Ridgway. Part II. Economic ornithology. By S. A. Forbes. Pub. by the authority of the state Legislature. Springfield, Ill., H. W. Rokker, printer, 1889-95. ENG url p. 276.

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: 13767
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14738691
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2138096

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