Tachornis phoenicobia

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: low seasonally wet grasslands, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Aerial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,952 meters (0 to 6,404 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Biology

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Bank Swallow

Members of the genus Tachornis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. furcata (Pygmy Palm Swift) · T. furcata furcata (Pygmy Palm Swift) · T. phoenicobia (Antillean Palm-Swift) · T. phoenicobia phoenicobia (Antillean Palm Swift) · T. squamata (Fork-Tailed Palm Swift) · T. squamata squamata (Fork-Tailed Palm Swift)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 371.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 245.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url .
• Birds of the Kelley-Roosevelts expedition to French Indo-China, by Outram Bangs and Josselyn Van Tyne. 18 1931 Chicago, 1931. url p. 54.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 264, p. 476, p. 480, p. 686, p. 695, p. 859.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1972 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 24.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Archipelago, and other is by Charles E. Hellmayr and Boardman Conover. 13 1918 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1918. url p. 146.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds's eggs in the British Museum (Natural History). London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url .
• 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. 324, p. 325, p. 804.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 254.
• List of the specimens of birds in the collection of the British Museum / [by G. R. Gray.] London: printed by the order of the Trustees, 1844-1867. url p. 20.
• Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, 1886- url p. 95.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 420.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 25, p. 40, p. 586, p. 689.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 146.
• The birds of Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse; assisted by Richard Hill, esq., of Spanish-town. London, J. Van Voorst, 1847. url , .
• 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 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 , p. 693, p. 694, p. 695.
• The birds of South Africa, by Arthur C. Stark. .. London, R. H. Porter, 1900-1906. url p. 28.
• West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: biological and historical information / by Robert M. Timm and Hugh H. Genoways. 2003 Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, [2003] url p. 34.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Tachornis phoenicobia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Tachornis phoenicobia. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• 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 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 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.
• 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 February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10376
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178025
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13809556
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178025
• IUCN ID: 244995
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 128495

Footnotes

1. Mean = 151.190 meters (496.030 feet), Standard Deviation = 301.050 based on 756 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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