Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Creoles and Pidgins, French:
Sikwiye
Common Names in Czech:
Banakit Americk
Common Names in Danish:
Banansmutte
Common Names in Dutch:
Suikerdiefje
Common Names in English:
bannaquit, Bahama hill-robin, bananaquit
Common Names in Finnish:
Banaanikerttuli
Common Names in French:
Sucrier , Sucrier à ventre jaune
Common Names in German:
Zuckervogel
Common Names in Guadeloupean Creole :
Falle Jaune
Common Names in Guarani:
Guyra Karoeva
Common Names in Haitian Creole French:
Kit
Common Names in Italian:
Bananero, Cereba Gialla
Common Names in Japanese:
Mamijiromitsudori, マミジロミツドリ
Common Names in Latin:
Coereba bahamensis
Common Names in Norwegian:
Bananasmett
Common Names in Polish:
Cukrzyk
Common Names in Portuguese:
Caga-Sebo, Cambacica O Mariquita
Common Names in Portuguese (Brazil):
Caga-Sebo, Cambacica
Common Names in Slovak:
Pitpit Ban
Common Names in Spanish:
Bananaquit, Platanera Com, Reinita-mielera
Common Names in Spanish (Argentine):
Mielero
Common Names in Spanish (Costa Rica):
Reinita Mielera
Common Names in Spanish (Cuba):
Reinita
Common Names in Spanish (Dominican Republic):
Cig
Common Names in Spanish (Honduras):
Bananaquit
Common Names in Spanish (Mexico):
Platanero
Common Names in Spanish (Nicaragua):
Mielero Cejiblanco
Common Names in Spanish (Paraguay):
Mielero
Common Names in Swedish:
Banansmyg
Description
Physical Description
Adult : Head : Crown: black Ear Coverts: black Face : Cheeks: white Chin: white Eyebrow Line : white stripe Lores : black Bill: black Curvature: decurved Shape : pointed Neck: Throat : white Body: Back: black Breast: yellow Tail: Undertail Coverts: white.
Size/Age/Growth
About 4.5 inches long, with a wingspan of 7.25 to 7.25 inches. Adults weigh about 0.3 ounces .
Habitat
Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical deciduous forests, arid lowland scrubs, arid lowland scrubs, second-growth scrub • Maximum Elevation: 1,500 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,869 meters (0 to 12,694 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
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 3.6 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist
- 14 Artificial/Terrestrial
- 14.6 Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest [more info]
Biology
Migration
Nonmigratory
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Passeriformes
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Passeres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
()
-
- Family:
Coerebidae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
()
- Subfamily:
Emberizinae
(
- Family:
Coerebidae
(
- Superfamily:
Passeroidea
(
- Suborder:
Passeres
(
- Order:
Passeriformes
(
- Superorder:
Passerimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Coereba flaveola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007
Similar Species
Members of the genus Coereba
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:
C. flaveola (Bannaquit) · C. flaveola aterrima (Black Bananaquit) · C. flaveola atrata (St.vincent Bananaquit) · C. flaveola bahamensis (Bahama Bananaquit) · C. flaveola caboti (Bananaquit) · C. flaveola flaveola (Bananaquit) · C. flaveola martinicana (Martinican Bananaquit) · C. flaveola portoricensis (Puerto Rico Bananaquit)
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Further Reading
- A list of the birds of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Govt. print. off., 1920. url .
- Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology: essays in honor of Ernest E. Williams / Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1983. url p. 724.
- Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 216.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 400, p. 401.
- Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. 1970 New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, url p. 106, p. 190, p. 190, p. 260, fig. 28, p. 313, p. 315, p. 316, p. 332.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 241.
- Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 116 1957 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 274, p. 354.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1935 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 286, p. 311.
- 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. 541.
- Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British Museum (Natural History) London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 295.
- Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 477.
- 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. 641.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 87, p. 91.
- IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 348.
- Jobos Bay National Estuarine Sanctuary Management Plan. San Juan, P.R.: Dept. of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, [1983] url p. 75.
- Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 201.
- Occasional papers of the Museum of Natural History, the University of Kansas. 1979 Lawrence, Kan.: The University, 1971-1994. url p. 5.
- 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. 702.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Colombia / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1997. url p. 489.
- Parental care and its evolution in birds. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1952. url p. 266.
- Postilla. 1965 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url appendix c , p. 105.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 295, p. 296, p. 796, p. 830, p. 833.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url , p. 21, p. 243, p. 310, p. 522, p. 540, p. 541, p. 574, p. 582, p. 584, p. 587, p. 594, p. 647, p. 653, p. 674.
- 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. 157.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 115 1951 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 328, p. 54, p. 86.
- Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 91.
- Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 30.
- The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 329, p. 38, p. 98.
- The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 160.
- 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. 62, p. 76.
- 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 standard natural history. Ed. by John Sterling Kingsley. Boston, S.E. Cassino and company, 1884-85. url p. 540.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 19 1982 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 281, p. 284, p. 295.
- University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 17 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 635.
- West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: biological and historical information / by Robert M. Timm and Hugh H. Genoways. 2003 Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, [2003] url p. 27.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2009. Coereba flaveola. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:
- Avian Knowledge Network, Great Backyard Bird Count
- Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
- UNIBIO, IBUNAM, CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- , Bird specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7501
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730000
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2498402
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 179900
- IUCN ID: 201323
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 407377
Footnotes
- Mean = 187.920 meters (616.535 feet), Standard Deviation = 582.760 based on 26,571 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
