Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Red-Headed Tailor Bird, Red-Headed Tailorbird, Rufous-Tailed Tailorbird
Common Names in French:
Couturière à Queue Rousse
Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 29 meters (95 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.7Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove
Vegetation Above High Tide
Level
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- Perching Birds
- Subfamily:
Acrocephalinae
()
- Genus:
Orthotomus
()
- Horsfield 1821 Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1) 13 p.165
- Specific name:
sericeus
- Temminck 1836 Pl.Col.livr.101 textpl.599
- Scientific name: - Orthotomus sericeus Temminck 1836
- Specific name:
sericeus
- Temminck 1836 Pl.Col.livr.101 textpl.599
- Genus:
Orthotomus
(
- Subfamily:
Acrocephalinae
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Orthotomus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 57 species and subspecies in this genus:
O. atrogulais · O. atrogularis (Black-Necked Tailor Bird) · O. atrogularis atrogularis (Black-Necked Tailor Bird) · O. atrogularis humphreysi · O. atrogularis nitidus · O. bennettii · O. castaneiceps (Philippine Tailorbird) · O. castaneiceps castaneiceps (Philippine Tailorbird) · O. chloronotus · O. cinereiceps (White-Eared Tailor Bird) · O. cinereiceps obscurior · O. coronatus · O. cuculatus (Mountain Tailor Bird) · O. cuculatus coronatus · O. cucullatus (Golden-Crowned Tailorbird) · O. cucullatus batjanensis · O. cucullatus cinereicollis · O. cucullatus coronatus · O. cucullatus cucullatus (Mountain Tailorbird) · O. cucullatus dumasi · O. cucullatus everetti · O. cucullatus hedymeles · O. cucullatus heterolaemus · O. cucullatus malayanus · O. cucullatus meisei · O. cucullatus philippinus · O. cucullatus riedeli · O. cucullatus stentor · O. cucullatus thais · O. cucullatus viridicollis · O. derbianus (Grey-Backed Tailorbird) · O. erythropterus · O. frontalis · O. heterolaemus (Rufous Headed Tailorbird) · O. longicaudus · O. metopias (Red-Capped Forest Warbler) · O. moreaui (Long-Billed Forest Warbler) · O. nigriceps (Black-Headed Tailor Bird) · O. ruficeps (Grey Tailor Bird) · O. ruficeps cineraceus · O. ruficeps ruficeps · O. ruficpes · O. samarensis (Yellow-Breasted Tailorbird) · O. sepium · O. sericeus (Rufous-Tailed Tailorbird) · O. sericeus hesperius · O. sericeus rubicundulus · O. sericeus sericeus (Rufous-Tailed Tailorbird) · O. sutorius (Long-Tailed Tailor Bird) · O. sutorius fernandonis · O. sutorius guzuratus · O. sutorius inexpectatus · O. sutorius longicauda · O. sutorius luteus · O. sutorius maculicollis · O. sutorius patia · O. sutorius sutorius (Long-Tailed Tailor Bird)
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Further Reading
- Annals and magazine of natural history: including zoology, botany and geology London. url p. 130.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 126, p. 133, p. 135, p. 238, p. 425, p. 453, p. 556, p. 86, p. 87, p. 88, p. 89.
- Catalogo sistematico degli uccelli di Borneo. Genoa, 1874. ITA url p. 248.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- 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 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3849013
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-561737
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 561737
- IUCN ID: 52542
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 139759
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 52.370 based on 45 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
