Euphonia minuta

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, river edge and river island forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Maximum Elevation: 1,000 meters • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Medium

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,520 meters (0 to 4,987 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Euphonia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 43 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. affinis (Scrub Euphonia) · E. affinis affinis (Scrub Euphonia) · E. anneae (Tawny-Capped Euphonia) · E. aureata (Golden-Rumped Euphonia) · E. cayennensis (Golden-Sided Euphonia) · (Green-Throated Euphonia) · E. chlorotica (Purple-Throated Euphonia) · E. chlorotica chlorotica (Purple-Throated Euphonia) · E. chrysopasta (Golden-Bellied Euphonia) · E. chrysopasta chrysopasta (Golden-Bellied Euphonia) · E. concinna (Velvet-Fronted Euphonia) · E. cyanocephala (Golden-Rumped Euphonia) · E. cyanocephala cyanocephala (Golden-Rumped Euphonia) · E. elegantissima (Blue-Rumped Euphonia) · E. elegantissima elegantissima (Blue-Rumped Euphonia) · E. finschi (Finsch's Euphonia) · E. fulvicrissa (Fulvous-Vented Euphonia) · E. fulvicrissa fulvicrissa (Fulvous-Vented Euphonia) · E. gouldi (Olive-Backed Euphonia) · E. gouldi gouldi (Olive-Backed Euphonia) · E. hirundinacea (Yellow-Throated Euphonia) · E. hirundinacea hirundinacea (Yellow-Throated Euphonia) · E. imitans (Spot-Crowned Euphonia) · E. jamaica (Jamaican Euphonia) · E. laniirostris (Thick-Billed Euphonia) · E. laniirostris laniirostris (Thick-Billed Euphonia) · E. luteicapilla (Yellow-Crowned Euphonia) · E. mesochrysa (Bronze-Green Euphonia) · E. mesochrysa mesochrysa (Bronze-Green Euphonia) · E. minuta (White-Vented Euphonia) · E. minuta minuta (White-Vented Euphonia) · E. musica (Blue-Hooded Euphonia) · E. musica musica (Porto Rican Euphonia) · E. pectoralis (Chestnut-Bellied Euphonia) · E. plumbea (Plumbeous Euphonia) · E. rufiventris (Rufous-Bellied Euphonia) · E. rufiventris rufiventris (Rufous-Bellied Euphonia) · E. saturata (Orange-Crowned Euphonia) · E. trinitatis (Trinidad Euphonia) · E. violacea (Violaceous Euphonia) · E. violacea violacea (Violaceous Euphonia) · E. xanthogaster (Orange-Bellied Euphonia) · E. xanthogaster xanthogaster (Orange-Bellied Euphonia)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the collection of birds formed by the late Hugh Edwin Strickland. Cambridge, Univ. Press, 1882. url p. 180.
• A contribution to the ornithology of northeastern Brazil, by Charles E. Hellmayr. 12 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 278.
• Annotated checklist of bird and mammal species of Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National Park, Peru / John W. Terborgh, John W. Fitzpatrick, Louise Emmons. 21 1984 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1984. url table 2 , p. 25.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 503.
• Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url , , .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 16, p. 23, p. 24.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1936 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1936. url p. 31, p. 33, p. 34, p. 40, p. 43.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 71.
• 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. 650.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 340, p. 351.
• Foreign birds for cage and aviary. By Arthur G. Butler London, "The Feathered world"[191-?] url p. 78.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 208, p. 373, p. 382.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. LondonPublished for the International Council by the Royal Society of London1901-1920 url p. 69.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]: Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 1015.
• Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 74.
• The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 25, p. 267.
• The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. London, International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. url p. 188, p. 300, p. 302, p. 74, p. 77.
• The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. London, B. Quaritch, 1916-1921. url .
• 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 table 1-2 , p. 57, p. 66, p. 75.
• 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 distribution of bird-life in Colombia; a contribution to a biological survey of South America, New York, Pub. by order of the trustees, 1917. url , .
• Timehri. Demerara: "Argosy" url p. 314.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2009. Euphonia minuta. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• 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 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 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 13, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7674
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-731202
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386559
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560027
• IUCN ID: 208988
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129725

Footnotes

1. Mean = 758.600 meters (2,488.845 feet), Standard Deviation = 681.560 based on 53 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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