Thraupis sayaca

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, gallery forests, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 2,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,582 meters (0 to 8,471 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.2     Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Thraupis sayaca (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Thraupis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. abbas (Yellow-Winged Tanager) · T. bonariensis (Blue-And-Yellow Tanager) · T. bonariensis bonariensis (Blue-And-Yellow Tanager) · T. cyanocephala (Blue-Capped Tanager) · T. cyanocephala cyanocephala (Blue-Capped Tanager) · (Azure-Shouldered Tanager) · T. episcopus (Blue-Grey Tanager) · T. episcopus episcopus (Blue-Gray Tanager) · T. glaucocolpa (Glaucous Tanager) · T. ornata (Golden-Chevroned Tanager) · T. palmarum (Palm Tanager) · T. palmarum palmarum (Palm Tanager) · T. sayaca (Sayaca Tanager) · T. sayaca sayaca (Sayaca Tanager)

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Further Reading

• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. url p. 387.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 270, p. 393, p. 443.
• Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 76.
• 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. 216, p. 219, p. 222.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 158, p. 159.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 321.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 522, p. 531.
• The Avicultural magazine. Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. url p. 190.
• Type-specimens of birds in the British Museum (Natural History) / by R.L.M. Warren & C.J.O. Harrison. London: BM(NH), 1966-1973. url p. 60.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Thraupis sayaca. 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 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 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 February 29, 2008:

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (bird skeletons)
• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7621
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730739
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14255225
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 563429
• IUCN ID: 246282
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152745

Footnotes

1. Mean = 369.450 meters (1,212.106 feet), Standard Deviation = 442.240 based on 89 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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