Tyrannus caudifasciatus

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• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, pine forests • Maximum Elevation: 2,000 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Hill tropical: hills and lower slopes, 500-900 m; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of -1,095 meters (-3,594 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.7     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
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Biology

Migration

Nonmigratory

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Tyrannus caudifasciatus d`Orbigny, 1839

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 29-Nov-2006

Similar Species

Eastern Kingbird, Gray Kingbird

Members of the genus Tyrannus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 23 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. albogularis (White-Throated Kingbird) · T. caudifasciatus (Loggerhead Kingbird) · T. caudifasciatus caudifasciatus (Loggerhead Kingbird) · T. couchii (Thornscrub Kingbird) · T. crassirostris (Thick-Billed Kingbird) · T. crassirostris crassirostris (Thick-Billed Kingbird) · T. cubensis (Cuban Flycatcher) · T. dominicensis (Grey Kingbird) · T. dominicensis dominicensis (Gray Kingbird) · T. forficata (Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher) · T. forficatus (Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher) · T. melancholicus (Lichtenstein's Kingbird) · T. melancholicus chloronotus (Tropical Kingbird) · T. melancholicus couchi (Tropical Kingbird) · T. melancholicus melancholicus (Tropical Kingbird) · T. melancholicus occidentalis (Tropical Kingbird) · T. niveigularis (Snowy-Throated Kingbird) · T. savana (Swallow-Tailed Flycatcher) · T. savana savana (Fork-Tailed Flycatcher) · T. tyrannus (Tyrant Flycatcher) · T. verticalis (Arkansas Flycatcher) · T. vociferans (Cassin's Flycatcher) · T. vociferans vociferans (Cassin's Kingbird)

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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. 311.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 119.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 248.
• Birds of the Bahama islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, The author, 1880. url p. 99.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 679.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 70 1930 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 270.
• Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories / Department of the Interior. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874- url p. 257, p. 266.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. initiated by Charles B. Cory, continued by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1927 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1927. url p. 157, p. 158.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 179, p. 180.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 201.
• 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. 471, p. 474, p. 804.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 227.
• On the crustacea and echinodermata of the Pacific shores of North America. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1857 url p. 553.
• Ornithological bibliography. [Washington: Geological Survey [etc.], 1878-1880. url p. 257.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 291, p. 291.
• Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston [etc.]Boston Society of Natural History. url p. 107, p. 108, p. 279, p. 279, p. 307, p. 448, p. 485, p. 66.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 29.
• Second instalment of American ornithological bibliography. Washington[Govt. Print. Office]1879. url .
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 23.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 546.
• The birds of Jamaica / by Philip Henry Gosse; assisted by Richard Hill, of Spanish-Town. London: J. Van Voorst, 1847. url p. 177.
• The birds of Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse; assisted by Richard Hill, esq., of Spanish-town. London, J. Van Voorst, 1847. url p. 177, p. 177.
• The birds of the Bahama Islands: containing many birds new to the Islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American birds / by Charles B. Cory. Boston, U.S.A.: Estes & Lauriat, 1890, c1879. url p. 249.
• The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. url p. 119.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Tyrannus caudifasciatus. 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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 10, 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.
• 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
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2599
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-712740
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14659874
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178290
• IUCN ID: 247869
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 128934

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 1,785.000 based on 100 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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