Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
White-winged Tanager
Common Names in French:
Tangara bifascié
Common Names in German:
Weißbindentangare
Common Names in Japanese:
コホノオフウキンチョウ
Common Names in Spanish:
Tángara ala blanca
Description
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Habitat
Vegetation: montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine-oak forests • Minimum Elevation: 800 meters • Maximum Elevation: 2,200 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Upper tropical: higher slopes, 900-1,600 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,085 meters (0 to 6,841 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.5 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
()
-
- Family:
Cardinalidae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Family:
Cardinalidae
(
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Piranga
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. bidentata (Flame-Coloured Tanager) · P. bidentata bidentata (Flame-Coloured Tanager) · P. erythrocephala (Red-Headed Tanager) · P. flava (Liver-Colored Tanager) · P. flava falva (Hepatic Tanager) · P. flava flava (Liver-Colored Tanager) · P. leucoptera (White-Winged Tanager) · P. leucoptera leucoptera (White-Winged Tanager) · P. ludoviciana (Louisiana Tanager) · P. olivacea (Black-Winged Redbird) · P. roseogularis (Rose-Throated Tanager) · P. rubra (Smooth-Headed Redbird) · P. rubra cooperi (Summer Tanager) · P. rubra rubra (Smooth-Headed Redbird) · P. rubriceps (Red-Hooded Tanager)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- A geographic classification of Neotropical mammals. 36 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 632.
- A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 612.
- A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 633, p. 612.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 101, p. 99.
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 27.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 128 1963 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 313, p. 356.
- Catalogue of a collection of birds from Guatemala, by Ned Dearborn. 1 1907 Chicago, 1907. url p. 122.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1936 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1936. url p. 288, p. 289.
- 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. 660.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 308.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url , , p. 253, p. 328, p. 636.
- Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 59, p. 90, p. 95.
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 25.
- The birds of Cerro de la Neblina, Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela / David E. Willard. .. [et al.]. 65 1991 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1991. url table 4-5 , p. 68, p. 80.
- The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- 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 .
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2009. Piranga leucoptera. 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 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 March 10, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- 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.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 10, 2008:
- Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7602
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-731113
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2478838
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 562208
- IUCN ID: 233213
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 145160
Footnotes
- Mean = 672.210 meters (2,205.413 feet), Standard Deviation = 572.130 based on 180 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
