Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Czech:
Ibis Andsk
Common Names in Danish:
Punaibis
Common Names in Dutch:
Puna-Ibis
Common Names in English:
Puna Ibis
Common Names in Estonian:
M
Common Names in Finnish:
Punaniibis
Common Names in French:
Ibis de Ridgway
Common Names in German:
Puna Ibis, Punaibis
Common Names in Italian:
Andino, Ibis Della Puna
Common Names in Japanese:
Andesuburonzutoki, アンデスブロンズトキ
Common Names in Latin:
Plegadis ridgwayi
Common Names in Norwegian:
Punaibis
Common Names in Polish:
Ibis Andyjski
Common Names in Spanish:
Cuervillo Pune, Morito De La Puna
Common Names in Spanish (Argentine):
Cuervillo Pune
Common Names in Spanish (Bolivia):
Cuervillo Pune
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Body: Back: black Flanks: violet Wings : Coverts: red sheen Flight Feathers: green sheen.
Habitat
Vegetation: freshwater marshes, freshwater marshes, bogs • Minimum Elevation: 3,100 meters • Maximum Elevation: 4,800 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Altiplano and Western Andes • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,846 meters (0 to 15,899 feet).[1]
Ecology:
It is found in swampy areas, rushy pastureland, mudflats
, pools
and
streams
, but also occurs in bunch-grass on hills
, sometimes far from
water (del Hoyo et al.
1992).[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.4 Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands [more info]
Taxonomy
- 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
- 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:
Ciconiimorphae
()
- Garrod, 1874
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
()
- Bonaparte, 1854
- Suborder:
Ciconiae
()
- Bonaparte, 1854
- Infraorder:
Ciconiides
()
- Parvorder:
Ciconiida
()
- Superfamily:
Threskiornithoidea
()
- Richmond, 1917
- Family:
Threskiornithidae
()
- Richmond, 1917
- Genus:
Plegadis
()
- Kaup, 1829
- Specific name:
ridgwayi
- (Allen) 1876
- Scientific name: - Plegadis ridgwayi (Allen, 1876) (Allen) 1876
- Specific name:
ridgwayi
- (Allen) 1876
- Genus:
Plegadis
(
- Family:
Threskiornithidae
(
- Superfamily:
Threskiornithoidea
(
- Parvorder:
Ciconiida
(
- Infraorder:
Ciconiides
(
- Suborder:
Ciconiae
(
- Order:
Ciconiiformes
(
- Superorder:
Ciconiimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Plegadis ridgwayi (Allen, 1876)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Plegadis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. chichi (White-Faced Glossy Ibis) · P. chihi (White-Faced Glossy Ibis) · P. falcinellus (Eastern Glossy Ibis) · P. falcinellus falcinellus (Glossy Ibis) · P. ridgwayi (Puna Ibis)
More Info
- Search for Pictures: images.google.com
- Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
- Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
- A Directory of Neotropical Wetlands. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 218, p. 223, p. 224, p. 227, p. 230, p. 232, p. 233, p. 42, p. 43, p. 45, p. 47, p. 672.
- A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 526.
- A history of the birds of Europe: including all the species inhabiting the western palaearctic region / London: Published by the Author, 1871-1881. url p. 339.
- Birds / by A.H. Evans. London: Macmillan, 1899 (1909 printing). url p. 622.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 135, p. 31, p. 38, p. 93.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 70 1930 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 179.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. 13 1948 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. url p. 269, p. 270.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 266, p. 37.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 138, p. 257.
- Game, shore, and water birds of India, with additional references to their allied species in other parts of the world. London, W. Thacker, 1904. url .
- IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 298, p. 305.
- Protected Landscapes: experience around the world. Prepared for the International Symposium on Protected Landscapes, Grange-over-Sands, England 5-10 October 1987 IUCN url p. 353.
- The Cambridge natural history / edited by S. F. Harmer and A. E. Shipley. London: Macmillan and Co.; 1895-1909. url p. 622.
- The Cambridge natural history, London, Macmillan and Co., Limited;1895-1909 url .
- The Cambridge natural history, ed. by S.F. Harmer. .. and A.E. Shipley. .. London, The Macmillan, Company, 1895-1909 url p. 622.
- The birds of Celebes and the neighbouring islands / A.B. Meyer and L.W. Wiglesworth. Berlin: R. Friedlnder, 1898. url p. 805.
- The ornithology of Illinois / [by Robert Ridgway and S.A. Forbes]. Springfield, Ill., H.W. Rokker, printer, 1889-1895. url p. 110.
- 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. url p. 110, p. 110.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Plegadis ridgwayi. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2009. Plegadis ridgwayi. 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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 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 09, 2008:
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174927
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13535880
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174927
- IUCN ID: 233867
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152974
Footnotes
- Mean = 627.090 meters (2,057.382 feet), Standard Deviation = 900.890 based on 24,388 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- BirdLife International 2009. Plegadis ridgwayi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
