Brotogeris chiriri

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 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 at an altitude of 0 to 4,400 meters (0 to 14,436 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Brotogeris chiriri (Vieillot, 1818)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brotogeris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 17 species and subspecies in this genus:

B. chiriri (Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet) · B. chiriri chiriri (Yellow-Chevroned Parakeet) · B. chrysoptera (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysoptera chrysoptera (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. chrysopterus chrysopterus (Golden-Winged Parakeet) · B. cyanoptera (Cobalt-Winged Parakeet) · B. cyanoptera cyanoptera (Cobalt-Winged Parakeet) · B. jugularis (Orange-Chinned Parakeet) · B. jugularis jugularis (Orange-Chinned Parakeet) · B. pyrrhoptera (Gray-Cheeked Parakeet) · B. pyrrhopterus (Gray-Cheeked Parakeet) · B. sanctithomae (Tui Parakeet) · B. sanctithomae sanctithomae (Tui Parakeet) · B. tirica (Plain Parakeet) · B. versicolurus (Canary-Winged Parakeet) · B. versicolurus versicolurus (Canary-Winged Parakeet)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 448.
• Checklist of CITES Species CITES, WCMC url p. 240.
• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 241, p. 80, p. 91, p. 123, p. 131, p. 250.
• Checklist of birds listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 76.
• Contents and index to volume 12, numbers 1 to 19, Zoological series / Wilfred H. Osgood. 12 1929 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1929. url p. 505.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. .. [Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution], 1848-1932. url p. 100, p. 98, p. 99.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 99.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Brotogeris chiriri. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Brotogeris chiriri. 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 9, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• 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 11, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10701
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-714580
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13727946
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554910
• IUCN ID: 196065
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNQA11030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 152590

Footnotes

1. Mean = 636.000 meters (2,086.614 feet), Standard Deviation = 971.820 based on 8,943 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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