Euphonia plumbea

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, gallery forests • Maximum Elevation: 1,000 meters • Zoogeographic Region: Guianan • 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 5,031 meters (0 to 16,506 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     2     Savanna   
  
•     2.1     Savanna - Dry   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     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: 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

• 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. 67.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 83.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 340, p. 341.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 208.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]: Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 1021.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 382.
• 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 p. 56, p. 75.

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 plumbea. 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 09, 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 09, 2008:

• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7654
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-560029
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386559
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 560029
• IUCN ID: 208991
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129727

Footnotes

1. Mean = 602.910 meters (1,978.051 feet), Standard Deviation = 829.970 based on 23,975 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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