The greenish schiffornis (''Schiffornis virescens''), also greenish mourner or greenish manakin (not to be confused with the
green manakin), is a species of
bird
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 lightweigh ...
in the family
Tityridae
Tityridae is family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics. The 45 species in this family were formerly spread over the families Tyrannidae, Pipridae and Cotingidae (''see Taxonomy''). As yet, no widely acce ...
. It has traditionally been placed in the
manakin
The manakins are a Family (biology), family, Pipridae, of small Tyranni, suboscine passerine birds. The group contains some 54 species distributed through the American tropics. The name is from Middle Dutch ''mannekijn'' "little man" (also the so ...
family, but evidence strongly suggest it is better placed in Tityridae,
Adopt the Family Tityridae
- South American Classification Committee (2007) where it is now placed by the South American Classification Committee
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and the Cooper Ornithological Society. Its m ...
.
It is found in southern Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, also eastern Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
, and extreme northeastern Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. Its natural habitat
In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...
s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...
, 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 ...
, and heavily degraded former forest.
The egg shapes for this bird can range from oval to elliptical shapes. It usually breeds between October and February, which is a common breeding time for forest birds.
References
External links
"Greenish schiffornis" videos
on the Internet Bird Collection
VIREO ttp://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Schiffornis+virescens Photo-High Res* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070705212637/http://www.ib.usp.br/ceo/images/sch_vir_mar.jpg Photo-High Resbr>Article
ib.usp.br—"Tityridae"
*Marini, Miguel Angelo, and Neander Marcel Heming. "Breeding of the Greenish Schiffornis (Schiffornis virescens, Tityridae)." ''REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ORNITOLOGIA'' 25.4 (2017): 269–272.
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Birds of Brazil
Birds of the Atlantic Forest
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