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Blythipicus
''Blythipicus'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia. Taxonomy The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin ''picus'' meaning "woodpecker". The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (''Blythipicus rubiginosus'') by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus ''Blythipicus'' is sister to a clade containing the genera '' Reinwardtipicus'' and ''Chrysocolaptes ''Chrysocolaptes'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus was introduced by English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. The type species was subsequently designated as the Java ...''. Species The genus contains two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blythipicus
''Blythipicus'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in Southeast Asia. Taxonomy The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The name was chosen to honour the English zoologist Edward Blyth whose name is combined with the Latin ''picus'' meaning "woodpecker". The type species was subsequently designated as the maroon woodpecker (''Blythipicus rubiginosus'') by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855. The genus is in the tribe Campephilini, one of five tribes that make up the woodpecker subfamily Picinae. The genus ''Blythipicus'' is sister to a clade containing the genera '' Reinwardtipicus'' and ''Chrysocolaptes ''Chrysocolaptes'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus was introduced by English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. The type species was subsequently designated as the Java ...''. Species The genus contains two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Woodpecker
The bay woodpecker (''Blythipicus pyrrhotis'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Diet and Nutrition The Bay Woodpecker’s diet consists of various insects such as ants, termites and wood-boring beetles, and they will also consume berries occasionally. They do most of their foraging 3-4 m below the surface level, on trunks, rotting snags, logs, and on saplings, vines and bamboo. They do not forage near other Bay Woodpeckers, but they maintain loose contact with their partners. Description The Bay Woodpecker is a mid-size bird with a body length of 26.5-30 cm (10.4-11.8 in). The average adult Bay Woodpecker has a weight of 126-170 g (4.4-5.9 oz). Male Bay Woodpeckers can be distinguished by a brown crown on their heads, a sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroon Woodpecker
The maroon woodpecker (''Blythipicus rubiginosus'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...s. References maroon woodpecker Birds of Malesia maroon woodpecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maroon Woodpecker
The maroon woodpecker (''Blythipicus rubiginosus'') is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Myanmar, Singapore, and southern Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...s. References maroon woodpecker Birds of Malesia maroon woodpecker Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picinae
Picinae containing the true woodpeckers is one of three subfamilies that make up the woodpecker family Picidae. True woodpeckers are found over much of the world, but do not occur in Madagascar or Australasia. Woodpeckers gained their English name because of the habit of some species of tapping and pecking noisily on tree trunks with their beaks and heads. This is both a means of communication to signal possession of territory to their rivals, and a method of locating and accessing insect larvae found under the bark or in long winding tunnels in the tree or upright log. Physiology and behaviour Some woodpeckers and wrynecks in the order Piciformes have zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backward. These feet, though adapted for clinging to a vertical surface, can be used for grasping or perching. Several species have only three toes. The woodpecker's long tongue, in many cases as long as the woodpecker itself, can be darted forward to capture insects. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Picidae
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. Most species live in forests or woodland habitats, although a few species are known that live in treeless areas, such as rocky hillsides and deserts, and the Gila woodpecker specialises in exploiting cacti. Members of this family are chiefly known for their characteristic behaviour. They mostly forage for insect prey on the trunks and branches of trees, and often communicate by drumming with their beaks, producing a reverberatory sound that can be heard at some distance. Some species vary their diet with fruits, birds' eggs, small animals, tree sap, human scraps, and carrion. They usually nest and roost in holes that they excavate in tree trunks, and their abandoned holes are of importance to other cavity-nesting birds. They sometimes come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clade
A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, the equivalent Latin term ''cladus'' (plural ''cladi'') is often used in taxonomical literature. The common ancestor may be an individual, a population, or a species (extinct or extant). Clades are nested, one in another, as each branch in turn splits into smaller branches. These splits reflect evolutionary history as populations diverged and evolved independently. Clades are termed monophyletic (Greek: "one clan") groups. Over the last few decades, the cladistic approach has revolutionized biological classification and revealed surprising evolutionary relationships among organisms. Increasingly, taxonomists try to avoid naming taxa that are not clades; that is, taxa that are not monophyletic. Some of the relationships between organisms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bird Genera
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the bee hummingbird to the ostrich. There are about ten thousand living species, more than half of which are passerine, or "perching" birds. Birds have whose development varies according to species; the only known groups without wings are the extinct moa and elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including ratites, penguins, and diverse endemic island species. The digestive and respiratory systems of birds are also uniquely adapted for flight. Some bird species of aquatic environments, particularly seabirds and some waterbirds, have further evolved for swimming. Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Woodpecker Blythipicus Pyrrhotis Mizoram (2)
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A fjord is an elongated bay formed by glacial action. A bay can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary of the Susquehanna River. Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada. Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology. The land surrounding a bay often reduces the strength of winds and blocks waves. Bays may have as wide a variety of shoreline characteristics as other shorelines. In some cases, bays have beaches, which "are usually characterized by a steep upper foreshore with a broad, flat fronting terrace".Maurice Schwartz, ''Encyclopedia of Coastal Science'' (2006), p. 129. Bays were s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrysocolaptes
''Chrysocolaptes'' is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae that are found in South and Southeast Asia. The genus was introduced by English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. The type species was subsequently designated as the Javan flameback (''Chrysocolaptes strictus'') by Scottish ornithologist Edward Hargitt in 1890. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ''khrusos'' meaning "gold" and ''kolaptēs'' meaning "chiseller". The genus belongs to the tribe Campephilini in the subfamily Picinae and is sister to the orange-backed woodpecker The orange-backed woodpecker (''Reinwardtipicus validus'') is a bird in the woodpecker family Picidae, found in southern Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia, Brunei, Sumatra, and Java. It is monotypic in the genus ''Reinwardtipicu ..., the only species in the genus '' Reinwardtipicus''. Species The genus contains these nine species: References Bird genera Taxa named by Edward Blyth {{woodpecker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange-backed Woodpecker
The orange-backed woodpecker (''Reinwardtipicus validus'') is a bird in the woodpecker family Picidae, found in southern Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia, Brunei, Sumatra, and Java. It is monotypic in the genus ''Reinwardtipicus''. Taxonomy The orange-backed woodpecker was described and illustrated in 1825 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in his ''Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux'' from specimens that had been collected on the Indonesian island of Java. He coined the binomial name ''Pic validus''. The woodpecker is now the sole species placed in the genus ''Reinwardtipicus'' that was erected in 1854 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte to accommodate the orange-backed woodpecker. The genus name ''Reinwardtipicus'' was chosen to honour the Dutch naturalist Caspar Reinwardt. His name is combined with ''picus'', the Latin word for a woodpecker. The specific epithet ''validus'' is a Latin word meaning "strong" or "powerful". The or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French naturalist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte. Life and career Bonaparte was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and Alexandrine de Bleschamp. Lucien was a younger brother of Napoleon I, making Charles the emperor’s nephew. Born in Paris, he was raised in Italy. On 29 June 1822, he married his cousin, Zénaïde, in Brussels. Soon after the marriage, the couple left for Philadelphia in the United States to live with Zénaïde's father, Joseph Bonaparte (who was also the paternal uncle of Charles). Before leaving Italy, Charles had already discovered a warbler new to science, the moustached warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States, he presented a paper on this new bird, which was later named after Alexander Wilson. Bonaparte then set about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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