Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Czech:
Lasolet Horsk
Common Names in Danish:
Stor Svalest
Common Names in Dutch:
Grote Spitsvogel
Common Names in English:
Black-Breasted Woodswallow, Great Wood-swallow, Great Woodswallow, Papuan Wood Swallow
Common Names in Finnish:
Papuanleiju
Common Names in French:
Grand Langrayen
Common Names in German:
Riesenschwalbenstar
Common Names in Italian:
Artamo Papua
Common Names in Japanese:
Papuamoritsubame, パプアモリツバメ
Common Names in Latin:
Artamus maximus
Common Names in Polish:
Ostrolot Duzy
Common Names in Spanish:
Golondrina Del Bosque Pap
Description
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,376 meters (0 to 11,076 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.9 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.4 Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Taxonomy
)Synonyms
Artamus maximus Meyer, 1874
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Meyer,A.B. [Eine Mittheilung von Hrn. Dr. Adolf
Meyer] über die von ihm auf Neu-Guinea und den
Inseln Jobi, Mysore
und Mafoor im Jahre 1873 gesammelten Amphibien. Monatsber. K
.
Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1874: 128-140, 1874.
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)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1971 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 188, p. 188, p. 45.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 422, p. 446.
- Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 8.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 163.
- Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 107, p. 248, p. 417, p. 94.
- Ornithological miscellany / 1 1876 London: Trübner and Co., Bernard Quaritch, R.H. Porter, 1876-1878. url p. 145, p. 180, p. 185, p. 188.
- Postilla. 1968 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 35.
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 450.
- The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago / by F. H. H. Guillemard. London: J. Murray, 1886. url p. 370.
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 maximus. 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 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.
- 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.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4101
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-558763
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13534714
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 558763
- IUCN ID: 192770
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129569
Footnotes
- Mean = 1,995.670 meters (6,547.474 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,973.780 based on 18 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
