Atlapetes

Rotkappen - Buschammer ( Atlapetes pileatus )

The bush buntings ( Atlapetes ) are a neotropical songbird genus of the bunting family.

Description

Busch buntings are medium-sized songbirds that reach sizes 14.5 to 21 centimeters. Geographically and morphologically divided Raymond Andrew Paynter, Jr. 1978, this genus into three species complexes A. schistaceus, A. and A. rufinucha albinucha one. In the group of species A. schistaceus the plumage is mostly gray. The species complex A. rufinucha comprises species with a predominantly yellow bottom and a plain-colored head. In the group A. albinucha are species with a two-tone skull.

Habitat and behavior

Their habitat is the undergrowth on the edges of mountain forests and woodlands ( wet and dry forests). The vocalizations of most Buschammer types can be distinguished similar and difficult. Their song, which is mainly heard during the twilight of elevated seating Wait consists of a series of fairly clear tones, for example, some variations of tsi tseee - tseee - tsi - tsi. Next there are different contact calls. The diet consists of seeds and insects.

Etymology

The genus name Atlapetes was introduced in 1831 by Johann Georg Wagler. The derivation is from the Greek and is composed of the syllables atla for the Titan Atlas, whose name carrier, sufferer means and petes together from the Greek petes for the flyer.

System

Currently, 29 species are recognized, which are native to Central America and South America. The following types are distinguished:

  • Rotkappen - Buschammer ( Atlapetes pileatus ) distribution: Mexico
  • White Beard Brush-Finch ( Atlapetes albofrenatus ) Distribution: Colombia
  • Ocher breast Buschammer ( Atlapetes semi rufus ) Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela
  • Tepuibuschammer ( Atlapetes personatus ) Distribution: Venezuela
  • White-naped Brush-Finch - ( Atlapetes albinucha ) Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
  • Grey ear - Buschammer ( Atlapetes melanocephalus ) Distribution: Northern Colombia
  • Zimtstirn - Buschammer ( Atlapetes pallidinucha ) Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru
  • Gold head Buschammer ( Atlapetes flaviceps ) Distribution: Columbia, State of Tolima
  • Rußkopf - Buschammer ( Atlapetes fuscoolivaceus ) Origin: Southwest of Colombia
  • Atlapetes crassus ( Recognised by the International Ornithological Congress as an independent species ), applies to some authors as a subspecies of the three-color Buschammer Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador
  • Three-color Buschammer ( Atlapetes tricolor ) Distribution: Peru
  • Glasses Buschammer ( Atlapetes leucopis ) Distribution: Ecuador, Colombia
  • Yellow-breasted Bunting -Busch ( Atlapetes latinuchus ) Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,
  • Antioquia - Buschammer ( Atlapetes blancae ) Distribution: Columbia, State of Antioquia
  • Rotohr - Buschammer ( Atlapetes rufigenis ) Distribution: Peru
  • Forbesbuschammer ( Atlapetes forbesi ) Distribution: Peru
  • Black Glasses Buschammer ( Atlapetes Melanopsis ) Distribution: Peru
  • Pectoral - Buschammer ( Atlapetes schistaceus ) Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru
  • Mirror Buschammer ( Atlapetes leucopterus ) Distribution: Ecuador, Peru
  • Bald - Brush-Finch ( Atlapetes albiceps ) Distribution: Ecuador, Peru
  • Pale head Buschammer ( Atlapetes pallidiceps ) Distribution: Ecuador
  • Rotscheitel - Buschammer ( Atlapetes seebohmi ) Distribution: Ecuador, Peru
  • Ferruginous Buschammer ( Atlapetes nationi ) Distribution: Peru
  • Slate Buschammer ( Atlapetes canigenis ) distribution: southern Peru
  • Vilcabambabuschammer ( Atlapetes terborghi ) distribution: southern Peru
  • Black Face Brush-Finch ( Atlapetes melanolaemus ) Distribution: Peru, Bolivia
  • Rotnacken - Buschammer ( Atlapetes rufinucha ) Distribution: Bolivia
  • Brown Beard Brush-Finch ( Atlapetes fulviceps ) Distribution: Bolivia, Argentina
  • Black Beard Brush-Finch ( Atlapetes citrinellus ) Distribution: Argentina

Inventory and risk

22 species are considered safely. Three species - the Rußkopf - Buschammer that Rotohr - Buschammer and Vilcabambabuschammer - are near threatened ( near threatened ) due to their limited distribution areas. Three other species - the golden-headed Brush-Finch, the Black Glasses Buschammer and the pale head Buschammer apply according to BirdLife International as " critically endangered " ( endangered ). The latter type classified in 2008 had a stock of 120 pairs and was classified as " critically endangered " ( critically endangered ). Thanks to successful conservation projects, the inventory increased again, so that the status in 2009 could be downgraded " critically endangered " on. One type - the Antioquia - Buschammer - was described in 2007 based on three museum specimens, the youngest of whom is from the year 1971. Searches for the rediscovery of the species have failed so far, so that the Antioquia - Buschammer was included as an endangered species in 2009 in the IUCN list.

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