Zonotrichia capensis

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: arid lowland scrubs, arid montane scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, semihumid/humid montane scrubs, campo grasslands, arid lowland scrubs, pastures and agricultural lands • Maximum Elevation: 4,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Understory/undergrowth • Center of Abundance: Upper montaine: mountains, upper range, above 3,600 m. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 5,107 meters (0 to 16,755 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     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

Zonotrichia capensis (Muller, 1776)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Zonotrichia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

Z. albicollis (White-Throated Sparrow) · Z. atricapilla (Golden-Crowned Sparrow) · Z. capensis (Rufous-Collared Sparrow) · Z. leucophrys (Western White-Crowned Finch) · Z. leucophrys leucophrys (Western White-Crowned Finch) · Z. lincolnii (Australian Cassowary) · Z. querula (Mourning Sparrow) · Z. querula querula (Harris's Sparrow)

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Further Reading

• A geographic classification of Neotropical mammals. 36 1958 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. url p. 626.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 103, p. 107, p. 110, p. 77, p. 88, p. 94.
• Breviora. 1967 Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, [1952- url p. 1.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 11, p. 194, p. 195, p. 196, p. 197, p. 214, p. 246, p. 256, p. 257, p. 262, p. 263, p. 267, p. 268, p. 271, p. 273, p. 685.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 105, p. 191, p. 191, fig. 33.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 153, p. 352.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 103 1950 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 366, p. 367, p. 381.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 106, p. 108, p. 109.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 579, p. 583.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 275.
• Check-list and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Ames, Iowa State College Press[1959] url p. 327, p. 447.
• 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. 713.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 41, p. 55.
• Ectoparasites of Panama. Rupert L. Wenzel [and] Vernon J. Tipton, editors. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1966. url p. 861.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 201.
• Migration of birds. by Frederick C. Linclon; revised by Steven R. Peterson; associate editor Peter A. Anastasi; illustrated by Bob Hines. Washington: Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service: for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979. url p. 118.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. 1994 Lawrence, Kan.: The University, 1971-1994. url p. 20, p. 21.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Argentina / Raymond A. Paynter. 1995 Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1995. url p. 1035, p. 892, p. 945, p. 954, p. 962, p. 964, p. 971, p. 998.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Brazil / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1991. url p. 714.
• Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1997. url p. 481, p. 512, p. 533.
• Postilla. New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 11, p. 40, p. 41.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 207, p. 209, p. 212, p. 213, p. 214, p. 371.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 616, p. 617.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 581, p. 614.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 377, p. 377.
• 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. 355.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 103, p. 107, p. 110, p. 111, p. 112, p. 88.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 121 1955 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 6, p. 9.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 208.
• 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 p. 53, p. 80.
• The birds of El Salvador, by Donald R. Dickey and A. J. Van Rossem. 23 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 394.
• 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 structure of the call note system of the warbling vireo / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1988. url p. 35.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Zonotrichia capensis. 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 March 08, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 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 08, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (bird skeletons)
• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7270
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730143
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1982671
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 563779
• IUCN ID: 249675
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 153184

Footnotes

1. Mean = 1,343.830 meters (4,408.891 feet), Standard Deviation = 962.420 based on 1,018 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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