Picumnus fuscus

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: river edge and river island forests, gallery forests • Zoogeographic Region: Cerrado • Foraging Strata: ? • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: High

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: It is restricted to várzea forest , where it may favour vine tangles and bamboo2.

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List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.8     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 27-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Picumnus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 41 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. albosquamatus (White Wedged Piculet) · P. albosquamatus albosquamatus (White Wedged Piculet) · P. aurifrons (Bar Breasted Piculet) · P. aurifrons aurifrons (Golden-Fronted Piculet) · P. castelnau (Plain-Breasted Piculet) · P. cinnamomeus (Chestnut Piculet) · P. cinnamomeus cinnamomeus (Chestnut Piculet) · P. cirratus (White Barred Piculet) · P. cirratus cirratus (White Barred Piculet) · P. dorbignyanus (Ocellated Piculet) · P. dorbygnianus (Ocellated Piculet) · P. exilis (Golden Spangled Piculet) · P. exilis exilis (Golden Spangled Piculet) · P. fulvescens (Tawny Piculet) · P. fuscus (Rusty-Necked Piculet) · P. granadensis (Grayish Piculet) · P. innominatus (Speckled Piculet) · P. innominatus chinensis (Speckled Piculet) · P. innominatus innominatus (Northern Speckled Piculet) · P. innominatus simlaensis (Speckled Piculet) · P. lafresnayi (Lafresnaye's Piculet) · P. lafresnayi lafresnayi (Lafresnaye's Piculet) · P. limae (Ochraceous Piculet) · P. minutissimus (Arrowhead Piculet) · P. nebulosus (Mottled Piculet) · P. nigropunctatus (Black-Dotted Piculet) · P. olivaceus (Olivaceous Piculet) · P. pumilus (Orinoco Piculet) · P. pygmaeus (Spotted Piculet) · P. rufiventris (Rufous-Breasted Piculet) · P. rufiventris rufiventris (Rufous-Breasted Piculet) · P. sclateri (Ecuadorian Piculet) · P. sclateri sclateri (Ecuadorian Piculet) · P. spilogaster (White-Bellied Piculet) · P. spilogaster spilogaster (White-Bellied Piculet) · P. squamulatus (Scaled Piculet) · P. squamulatus squamulatus (Scaled Piculet) · P. steindachneri (Speckle-Chested Piculet) · P. subtilis (Fine Barred Piculet) · P. temminckii (Ochre-Collared Piculet) · P. varzeae (Varzea Piculet)

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Further Reading

• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 291.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles B. Cory. 13 1919 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1919. url p. 502.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 530.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 89.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 502.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Picumnus fuscus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2008. Picumnus fuscus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• 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.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11390
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-553954
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 553954
• IUCN ID: 232791
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 145747

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2008. Picumnus fuscus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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