Myiarchus tuberculifer

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 3,400 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 982 meters (3,223 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.8     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Diet

Almost Exclusively: Insects. Lesser Quantities of: Fruit.

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Mid-story/canopy nesting
• Nest Type: Cavity
• Clutch Size: 4-5
• Length of Incubation : 14 days
• Days to Fledge : 14?

Migration

Short distance migrant

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Myiarchus tuberculifer (d`Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) • Myiarchus tuberculifer (Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

The Dusky-capped Flycatcher is most similar to the other flycatchers in the genus Myiarchus: Great Crested, Brown-crested and Ash-throated. Great Crested and Brown-crested are larger with larger, thicker bills. Great Crested has a darker gray throat and breast. The Ash-throated has paler yellow underparts. Dusky-capped has a browner, less rusty tail than Great Crested and Ash-throated. The calls of these very similar species are an excellent way to distinguish them. Some species of kingbirds are similar but have paler heads and lack rusty in the tail.

Members of the genus Myiarchus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 43 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. antillarum (Puerto Rican Flycatcher) · M. apicalis (Apical Flycatcher) · M. barbirostris (Jamaican Flycatcher) · M. cephalotes (Pale-Edged Flycatcher) · M. cephalotes cephalotes (Pale-Edged Flycatcher) · M. cinerascens (Lower California Flycatcher) · M. cinerascens cinerascens (Ash-Throated Flycatcher) · M. cinerascens pertinax (Ash-Throated Flycatcher) · M. crinitus (Great-Crested Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher) · M. crinitus boreus (Great Crested Flycatcher) · M. crinitus crinitus (Great Crested Flycatcher) · M. ferox (Short-Crested Flycatcher) · M. ferox ferox (Short-Crested Flycatcher) · M. magnirostris (Large-Billed Flycatcher) · M. nugator (Grenada Flycatcher) · M. nuttingi (Lower California Flycatcher) · M. nuttingi inquietus (Nutting's Flycatcher) · M. nuttingi nuttingi (Nutting's Flycatcher) · M. oberi (Lesser Antillean Flycatcher) · M. oberi oberi (Lesser Antillean Flycatcher) · M. panamensis (Panamanian Flycatcher) · M. phaeocephalus (Sooty-Crowned Flycatcher) · M. phaeocephalus phaeocephalus (Sooty-Crowned Flycatcher) · M. sagrae (La Sagra's Flycatcher) · M. sagrae sagrae (La Sagra's Flycatcher) · M. semirufus (Rufous Flycatcher) · M. stolidus (Stolid Flycatcher) · M. stolidus stolidus (Stolid Flycatcher) · M. swainsoni (Swainson's Flycatcher) · M. swainsoni swainsoni (Swainson's Flycatcher) · M. tuberculifer (Lawrence's Crested Flycatcher) · M. tuberculifer lawrenceii (Dusky-Capped Flycatcher) · M. tuberculifer olivascens (Dusky-Capped Flycatcher) · M. tuberculifer tresmariae (Dusky-Capped Flycatcher) · M. tuberculifer tuberculifer (Dusky-Capped Flycatcher) · M. tyrannulus (Mexican Crested Flycatcher) · M. tyrannulus cooperi (Brown-Crested Flycatcher) · M. tyrannulus magister (Brown-Crested Flycatcher) · M. tyrannulus tyrannulus (Brown-Crested Flycatcher) · M. validus (Rufous-Tailed Flycatcher) · M. venezuelensis (Venezuelan Flycatcher) · M. yucatanensis (Yucatan Flycatcher) · M. yucatanensis yucatanensis (Yucatan Flycatcher)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the ornithology of the Orinoco region, by George K. Cherrie. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Pub. for the Brooklyn museum, 1916. url p. 216, p. 216, p. 244.
• A geographic classification of Neotropical mammals. 36 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 636.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 345, p. 609.
• Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 23.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 137, p. 281, p. 549.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 178, p. 178, p. 303, p. 58, fig. 6.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 43.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 4.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 116 1957 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 265, p. 279, p. 288, p. 403, p. 451.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 127.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. initiated by Charles B. Cory, continued by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1927 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927. url p. 181.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 258.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 389, p. 507.
• Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 678, p. 688.
• 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. 462, p. 804.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 195.
• Mammals and birds of the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru / Bruce D. Patterson, Douglas F. Stotz, Sergio Solari. 110 2006 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 2006. url p. 48.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 81.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 182, p. 211, p. 213.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 596.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 477.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 228, p. 290, p. 507, p. 551, p. 577, p. 600, p. 601, p. 61, p. 635, p. 670.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 143 1961 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 18, p. 41, p. 429, p. 431, p. 432, p. 608, p. 609, p. 610, p. 621, p. 629.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 168, p. 365, p. 365.
• The birds of the Santa Marta region of Colombia: a study in altitudinal distribution. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1922 url , , .
• The distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , , , .
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 15 1968 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 45.
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url p. 90.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Myiarchus tuberculifer. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• 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 and 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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• 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.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2564
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-712763
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2496811
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178319
• IUCN ID: 224893
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPAE43030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178166

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 729.510 based on 1,665 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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