Giant conebill

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Giant conebill
Small brown and grey bird perching on a branch

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Conirostrum
Species:
C. binghami
Binomial name
Conirostrum binghami
(Chapman, 1919)
Synonyms

Oreomanes fraseri

The giant conebill (Conirostrum binghami) is a small passerine bird, one of the tanager family. It is closely related to the regular conebills Conirostrum though it differs in its larger size and nuthatch-like foraging habits.

The giant conebill is 15 centimetres (5.9 in) in length and weighs 22–27 grams (0.78–0.95 oz). It is grey above, deep chestnut below, and with a white patch on the cheeks. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. It lives in Polylepis trees of the family Rosaceae.

The giant conebill lives individually or in groups of 5 or less. It peels

incubate the eggs, feed the chicks and remove the fecal sacs.[2]

Its decline is attributed to the destruction and fragmentation of Polylepis woodland.

Taxonomy

The taxonomy is complicated. The giant conebill was

monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22722114A94749917.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. S2CID 85970323
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  3. ^ Sclater, Philip Lutley (1860). "List of Birds collected by Mr. Fraser in the vicinity of Quito, and during excursions to Pichincha and Chimborazo; with notes and descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 28: 73-83 [75, Plate 159].
  4. ^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1970). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 398–399.
  5. PMID 24583021
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  6. PMID 27394344
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  7. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  8. hdl:2246/1747
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Further reading

  • BirdLife Species Factsheet
  • Mason, N. A. and K. J. Burns. 2010 .Giant Conebill (Oreomanes fraseri), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=589196
  • 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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