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| Oreomanes fraseri Sclater, 1860 |
The Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri is a small passerine bird, one of the tanager family. Philip Lutley Sclater ( November 4, 1829 - June 27, 1913) was an English Lawyer and Zoologist. The tanagers are a family, Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. The only member of the genus Oreomanes it is closely related to the regular conebills Conirostrum though it differs in its larger size and nuthatch-like foraging habits. Typical conebills are the Tanager Genus Conirostrum. They are small tanagers (9 - 14cm found in the forests of South America The nuthatches are a Genus, Sitta, of small Passerine Birds belonging to the Wallcreeper, constitute the
The Giant Conebill is 15 cm in length and weighs 22. 0 -27. 0 g. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics. Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America. The Republic of Bolivia (República de Bolivia) named after Simón Bolívar, is a Landlocked country in central South America. It lives in Polylepis trees of the family Rosaceae. Polylepis is a genus of trees and shrubs restricted to the Andes of South America. The Rosaceae or Rose family is a large family of Plants with about 3000-4000 species in 100-160 genera
The Giant Conebill lives individually or in groups of 5 or less. It peels bark off Polylepis trees to find insects. It also eats aphids and sugary solutions secreted by Gynoxys. UserPolbot. --> Gynoxys is a genus of Flowering plant in the Asteraceae family Nothing is known of reproductive behavior.
Its decline is attributed to the destruction and fragmentation of Polylepis woodland.
The binomial commemorates the British zoologist Louis Fraser. Louis Fraser (1810–1866 was a British zoologist and collector
References
- BirdLife International (2004). Oreomanes fraseri. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Ridgely, R. S. , & G. Tudor. 1989. The birds of South America, vol. 1. Univ. Texas Press, Austin.
- Schulenberg, T. S. 1985. An intergeneric hybrid conebill (Conirostrum X Oreomanes) from Peru. Pp. 390-395 in "Neotropical Ornithology" (P. A. Buckley et al. , eds. ), Ornithol. Monogr. No. 36.
- Zimmer, J. 1942d. Studies of Peruvian birds, No. 43. Notes on The genera Dacnis, Xenodacnis, Coereba, Conirostrum, and Oreomanes. 1193: 1-16.
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