Canary Islands Chiffchaff

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Phylloscopidae
Genus:	Phylloscopus
Species:	P. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Phylloscopidae is a newly described family of small Insectivorous Birds formerly placed in the Old World warbler family. Leaf-warblers are small Insectivorous Birds belonging to the Genus Phylloscopus. canariensis

Binomial name

Phylloscopus canariensis
(Hartwig, 1886)

Subspecies

Phylloscopus canariensis canariensis Hartwig, 1886
Western Canary Islands Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus canariensis exsul Hartert, 1907
Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff (extinct, 1986?)

The Canary Islands Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus canariensis) is a species of leaf warbler endemic to the Canary Islands, Spain. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In Zoology, as in other branches of Biology, subspecies is the Taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a Species. Ernst Johann Otto Hartert ( October 29, 1859 - November 11, 1933) was a German Ornithologist and Oologist. Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff or Lanzarote Island Chiffchaff ( Phylloscopus canariensis exsul) was a Subspecies of the Canary Islands Chiffchaff In Biology and Ecology, extinction is the cessation of existence of a Species or group of taxa. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. Leaf-warblers are small Insectivorous Birds belonging to the Genus Phylloscopus. Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere The Canary Islands ( English pronunciation kəˈnæriː ˈaɪləndz Spanish: Islas Canarias, ˈizlas kaˈnarjas are a Spanish Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.

Taxonomy

Previously the Canary Island Chiffchaff was considered as a subspecies of the Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita). In Zoology, as in other branches of Biology, subspecies is the Taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a Species. The Common Chiffchaff or simply Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita, is a common and widespread Leaf warbler, named for its distinctive onomatopoeic Now it is recognised as a separate species under the name Phylloscopus canariensis (Clement & Helbig, 1998; Sangster et al. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. , 2001) for the following reasons (compared to the Common Chiffchaff) (Helbig et al. , 1996):

Smaller in size
Shorter wings
Wings rounder
Vocalizations different
mtDNA sequence divergence

Subspecies

Western Canary Islands Chiffchaff: Western Canary Islands: El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife, and Gran Canaria. Mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA) is the DNA located in Organelles called mitochondria. A DNA sequence or genetic sequence is a succession of letters representing the Primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA Molecule Isla de La Palma (known in English as "La Palma" not to be confused with "Palma" in the Balearic Islands is a Spanish volcanic ocean island an entirely different island is Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera off Morocco La Gomera is the second-smallest of Spain's Canary Islands Tenerife (previously known and spelled as "Teneriffe" in English before mass tourism adopted the Spanish spelling a Spanish Island, is the largest Gran Canaria (in English " Grand Canary " is an island of the Canary Islands, an Archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from
Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff: Eastern Canary Islands: Lanzarote and possibly Fuerteventura. The Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff or Lanzarote Island Chiffchaff ( Phylloscopus canariensis exsul) was a Subspecies of the Canary Islands Chiffchaff Lanzarote, a Spanish Island, is the easternmost of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa Fuerteventura, a Spanish Island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.

References

Clement, P. & Helbig, A. J. (1998): Taxonomy and identification of chiffchaffs in the Western Palearctic. Brit. Birds 91: 361–376.

Helbig, A. J. ; Martens, J. ; Seibold, I. ; Henning, F. ; Schottler, B. & Wink, M. (1996): Phylogeny and species limits in the Palearctic Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita complex: mitochondrial genetic differentiation and bioacoustic evidence. Ibis 138(4): 650–666. Ibis, subtitled "the International Journal of Avian Science" is the peer-reviewed Scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union

Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G. ; Helbig, Andreas J. & Parkin, David T. (2002): Taxonomic recommendations for European birds. Ibis 144(1): 153–159. Ibis, subtitled "the International Journal of Avian Science" is the peer-reviewed Scientific journal of the British Ornithologists' Union doi:10.1046/j.0019-1019.2001.00026.x PDF fulltext

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