Artamus minor

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.8     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.5     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     3.6     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Artamus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. cinereus (Black-Faced Wood-Swallow) · A. cinereus cinereus (Black-Faced Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. cyanopterus cyanopterus (Dusky Wood Swallow) · A. fuscus (Ashy Swallow-Shrike) · A. insignis (White-Backed Woodswallow) · A. leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorhynchus leucorhynchus (White-Breasted Wood Swallow) · A. leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. leucorynchus leucorynchus (White-Breasted Wood-Swallow) · A. maximus (Black-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. mentalis (Fiji White-Breasted Woodswallow) · A. minor (Little Wood-Swallow) · A. monachus (Ivory-Backed Wood-Swallow) · A. personatus (Masked Wood-Swallow) · A. superciliosus (White-Browed Wood-Swallow)

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Further Reading

• A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 73.
• A key to the birds of Australia: with their geographical distribution / by Robert Hall. London [England]: R. H. Porter, [1906?] url p. 48.
• A list of the birds of Australia: containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author / London: Witherby, 1913. url p. 236, p. 361.
• A list of the insectivorous birds of New South Wales / by Alfred J. North. Sydney: Charles Potter [etc.], Govt. Printer, 1896-1897. url p. 6.
• Austral avian record; a scientific journal devoted primarily to the study of the Australian avifauna. London: Witherby. url p. 114, p. 176.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 242.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 20.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. url p. 261.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 261.
• Catalogue of the genera and subgenera of birds contained in the British Museum. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855. url p. 58.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 161, p. 165.
• Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania. Sydney, F. W. White, Printer.1889. url .
• Handbook to The birds of Australia. By John Gould. LondonPub. by the author, 1865. url p. 146, p. 146, p. 147, p. 147.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 325, p. 327, p. 408, p. 471, p. 617.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 124.
• Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon, by Archibald James Campbell. ... With map, 28 coloured plates and 131 photographic illustrations. Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford, 1901. url p. 26, p. 474.
• Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania, by Alfred J. North... Sydney: Australian Museum, 1901-1914 url , p. 263, p. 264.
• Ornithological miscellany / 3 1878 London: Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter, 1876-1878. url p. 180, p. 201, p. 264.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 1087, p. 1163, p. 167, p. 240, p. 270, p. 30, p. 414, p. 423.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. [Brisbane, Royal Society of Queensland]1885- url p. 120, p. 26.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 15.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 604.
• Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 140.
• South Australian ornithologist. Adelaide, South Australian Ornithological Association. url p. 109, p. 169, p. 178.
• The Emu: official organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union. Melbourne: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, 1901- url , p. 126, p. 127, p. 131, p. 134, p. 138, p. 139, p. 149, p. 173, p. 174, p. 175, p. 184, p. 202, p. 212, p. 225, p. 235, p. 250, p. 28, p. 34, p. 46, p. 55, p. 59, p. 68, p. 77, p. 86, p. 93, p. 94.
• The birds of Australia, London [etc.]Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1911. url .
• The treasury of natural history; or, A popular dictionary of animated nature: in which the zoological characteristics that distinguish the different classes, genera, and species, are combined with a variety of interesting information illustrative of the habits, instincts, and g By Samuel Maunder. .. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. url p. 748.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Artamus minor. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• 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 March 11, 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.
• 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 11, 2008:

• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4108
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558765
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2481009
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558765
• IUCN ID: 192772
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129571

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