Todiramphus sanctus

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,846 meters (0 to 15,899 feet).[1]

Ecology: List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     1.5     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     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   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.5     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry   
  
•     4.6     Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     12     Marine Intertidal   
  
•     12.1     Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline   
  
•     12.2     Marine Intertidal - Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars , Spits , Etc   
  
•     12.3     Marine Intertidal - Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches   
  
•     12.4     Marine Intertidal - Mud Flats and Salt Flats   
  
•     13     Marine Coastal/Supratidal   
  
•     13.3     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Sand Dunes   
  
•     13.4     Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes   
  
•     14     Artificial/Terrestrial   
  
•     14.1     Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land   
  
•     14.3     Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations   
  
•     14.4     Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens   
  
•     14.5     Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas   
  
•     14.6     Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Halcyon sancta Vigors & Horsfield • Todiramphus sanctus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) • Todirhamphus sanctus • Todirhamphus sanctus (Vigors & Horsfield) , 1827 • Todirhamphus sanctus (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827) • Todirhamphus sanctus (Vigors & Horsfield

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 06-Dec-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Todiramphus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 31 species and subspecies in this genus:

T. albonotatus (White-Mantled Kingfisher) · (Cinnamon-Backed Kingfisher) · T. australasia australasia (Cinnamon-Backed Kingfisher) · T. chloris (White-Collared Kingfisher) · T. chloris chloris (White-Collared Kingfisher) · T. cinnamominus (Caroline Islands Kingfisher) · T. cinnamominus cinnamominus (Micronesian Kingfisher) · T. diops (Blue and White Kingfisher) · T. enigma (Talaud Kingfisher) · T. farquhari (Chestnut-Bellied Kingfisher) · T. funebris (Sombre Kingfisher) · T. gambieri (Mangareva Kingfisher) · T. gambieri gambieri (Mangareva Kingfisher) · T. godeffroyi (Marquesas Kingfisher) · (South Moluccan Kingfisher) · T. leucopygius (Ultramarine Kingfisher) · T. macleayii (Forrest Kingfisher) · T. macleayii macleayii (Forrest Kingfisher) · T. nigrocyaneus (Blue-Black Kingfisher) · T. nigrocyaneus nigrocyaneus (Blue-Black Kingfisher) · T. pyrrhopygius (Red-Backed Kingfisher) · T. recurvirostris (Flat-Billed Kingfisher) · T. ruficollaris (Cook Islands Kingfisher) · T. sanctus (Flat-Billed Kingfisher) · T. sanctus sanctus (Sacred Kingfisher) · T. saurophaga (White-Headed Kingfisher) · T. saurophagus (Beach Kingfisher) · T. tutus (Chattering Kingfisher) · T. veneratus (Tahitian Kingfisher) · T. winchelli (Rufous Lored Kingfisher) · T. winchelli winchelli (Rufous Lored Kingfisher)

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Further Reading

• 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. 40.
• Catalogue of the birds of the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the collection of the British Museum. By George Robert Gray. .. London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1859. url p. 6.
• Catalogue of the collection of birds' eggs in the British museum (Natural history). London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1901-12. url p. 40.
• Handbook to The birds of Australia. By John Gould. LondonPub. by the author, 1865. url p. 586.
• List of the vertebrated animals now or lately living in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London. London, Printed for the Society1879. url p. 250.
• Mammalogy and ornithology by John Cassin. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858. url .
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 190.
• 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. 178, p. 178.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Todiramphus sanctus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2009. Todiramphus sanctus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
• 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 16, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11021
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-692705
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554603
• IUCN ID: 246572
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 179899

Footnotes

1. Mean = 311.050 meters (1,020.505 feet), Standard Deviation = 753.500 based on 16,274 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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