Family Tanagers (Thraupidae)
Least Concern
Yellow-billed Cardinal (Paroaria capitata)
Taxonomy
French: Paroare à bec jaune German: Gelbschnabeltangare Spanish: Cardenilla piquigualda
Taxonomy:
T[achyphonus]. capitatus
d’Orbigny
, 1837,no locality = Corrientes, Argentina
.See P. gularis (below). Race fuscipes weakly differentiated; species perhaps better treated as monotypic. Two subspecies tentatively recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution
P. c. capitata#R
(d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) – S Brazil (SW Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul and Rio Grande do Sul, rarely further E) and adjacent Bolivia (E Santa Cruz) S through Paraguay to N Argentina (E Salta, Formosa and Corrientes S to W Córdoba and N Buenos Aires) and extreme NW Uruguay.
P. c. fuscipes
J. Bond & Meyer de Schauensee, 1939 – E Tarija, SE Bolivia.
Introduced (nominate race) in Hawaiian Is.
Descriptive notes
16·5 cm; 17–24·5 g. A medium-sized, rather slim passerine with rounded crown and somewhat rounded tail; bill longer than it is deep, and with gently... read more
Voice
Song a melodious repetition of 2–3 notes in set pattern, e.g. “tweew wiit-teew, tweew... read more
Habitat
Marshes with shrubs or woody vegetation, flooded grasslands adjacent to shrubs or woody vegetation... read more
Food and feeding
Food includes vegetable matter such as seeds, young shoots and berries, also insects; highly adaptable, and in areas near humans may feed... read more
Breeding
Season Sept–Mar. Nest cup-shaped, made from fibres and lined with short rootlets and hair, placed 1·4–3·6 m from... read more
Movements
Sedentary.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened. Generally common. Has a substantial range, and no evidence of population declines. Introduced in Hawaii c. 1930, and present on the larger islands.... read more
Authorship of Tachyphonus capitatus
The authorship of Tachyphonus capitatus was corrected to d'Orbigny alone by Dickinson & Lebossé (2018:115).
The correct citation is: Tachyphonus capitatus d’Orbigny, 1837, Voyage, livr. 20, Oiseaux, pl. 19, fig. 2.
Rerefence:
Dickinson, E.C. & Lebossé, A. (2018) A study of d’Orbigny’s “Voyage dans l’Amerique Meridionale” IV. New avian names deriving from d’Orbigny’s expedition with evidence for their first introduction and necessary corrections to authorship, dates and citations. Zoological Bibliography 5(4): 49-274. PDF available at: http://www.avespress.com/featured-periodicals/
authorship and date
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