Chowchilla: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
ShortDescBot (talk | contribs) ShortDescBot adding short description "Species of bird" |
|||
| (11 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown) | |||
| Line 5: | Line 5: | ||
{{Speciesbox |
{{Speciesbox |
||
| name = Chowchilla |
| name = Chowchilla |
||
| image = Chowchillapair.jpg |
|||
| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.146838 1 - Orthonyx spaldingii Ramsay, 1868 - Turdidae - bird skin specimen.jpeg |
|||
| image_caption = Pair, Paluma, Queensland |
|||
| status = LC |
| status = LC |
||
| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
| status_system = IUCN3.1 |
||
| status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn| |
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2017 |title=''Orthonyx spaldingii'' |volume=2017 |page=e.T22704977A118670720 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704977A118670720.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> |
||
| genus = Orthonyx |
| genus = Orthonyx |
||
| species = spaldingii |
| species = spaldingii |
||
| authority = [[Edward Pierson Ramsay|Ramsay]], 1868 |
| authority = [[Edward Pierson Ramsay|Ramsay]], 1868 |
||
| synonyms = |
| synonyms = |
||
}} |
}} |
||
The '''chowchilla''' (''Orthonyx spaldingii'') is a [[passerine]] [[bird]] in the family [[Orthonychidae]]. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Australia]]. |
The '''chowchilla''' ('''''Orthonyx spaldingii''''') is a [[passerine]] [[bird]] in the family [[Orthonychidae]]. It is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Australia]]. |
||
| ⚫ | |||
==Taxonomy== |
==Taxonomy== |
||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
==Description== |
==Description== |
||
Unmistakable thrush-like, ground-dwelling, birds. Males and females largely dark brown with white eye-ring, tail-feather shafts extend as spines beyond feather-vanes; males with white throat, breast and belly; females with bright rufous throat and upper breast, white lower breast and belly. |
Unmistakable thrush-like, ground-dwelling, birds. Males and females largely dark brown with white eye-ring, tail-feather shafts extend as spines beyond feather-vanes; males with white throat, breast and belly; females with bright rufous throat and upper breast, white lower breast and belly. |
||
| Line 28: | Line 29: | ||
==Behaviour== |
==Behaviour== |
||
| ⚫ | |||
===Diet=== |
===Diet=== |
||
| Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
===Breeding=== |
===Breeding=== |
||
Nests on or near ground, often on ferns, stumps or logs. Builds a bulky, dome-shaped stick-nest with a clutch of one, possibly sometimes two, white eggs. |
Nests on or near ground, often on ferns, stumps or logs. Builds a bulky, dome-shaped stick-nest with a clutch of one, possibly sometimes two, white eggs. |
||
==Gallery== |
|||
<gallery> |
|||
| ⚫ | |||
| ⚫ | |||
</gallery> |
|||
==References== |
==References== |
||
| Line 45: | Line 51: | ||
==External links== |
==External links== |
||
*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/grzimek_birds/Orthonychidae/orthonyx_spaldingii.jpg/view.html Image at ADW] |
*[http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/grzimek_birds/Orthonychidae/orthonyx_spaldingii.jpg/view.html Image at ADW] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616065053/http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/grzimek_birds/Orthonychidae/orthonyx_spaldingii.jpg/view.html |date=16 June 2011 }} |
||
{{Taxonbar|from=Q1315452}} |
{{Taxonbar|from=Q1315452}} |
||
Latest revision as of 17:22, 25 December 2023
| Chowchilla | |
|---|---|
| |
| Pair, Paluma, Queensland | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Orthonychidae |
| Genus: | Orthonyx |
| Species: | O. spaldingii
|
| Binomial name | |
| Orthonyx spaldingii Ramsay, 1868
| |
The chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii) is a passerine bird in the family Orthonychidae. It is endemic to Australia.
Taxonomy
[edit]In their 1999 study, Schodde and Mason recognise two adjoining subspecies, O. s. spaldingii and O. s. melasmenus with a zone of intergradation.[2]
Description
[edit]Unmistakable thrush-like, ground-dwelling, birds. Males and females largely dark brown with white eye-ring, tail-feather shafts extend as spines beyond feather-vanes; males with white throat, breast and belly; females with bright rufous throat and upper breast, white lower breast and belly.
Distribution and habitat
[edit]The chowchilla is restricted to upland and lowland tropical rainforests of north-eastern Queensland.
Behaviour
[edit]Diet
[edit]Mainly invertebrates, but also small vertebrates.
Voice
[edit]Continuous chattering, singing and other complex vocalisations.
Breeding
[edit]Nests on or near ground, often on ferns, stumps or logs. Builds a bulky, dome-shaped stick-nest with a clutch of one, possibly sometimes two, white eggs.
Gallery
[edit]-
Near Mount Lewis – Australia -
Male (left). female (right)
.JPG)
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Orthonyx spaldingii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22704977A118670720. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22704977A118670720.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Schodde R, Mason IJ (1999). The Directory of Australian Birds : Passerines. A Taxonomic and Zoogeographic Atlas of the Biodiversity of Birds in Australia and its Territories. Collingwood, Australia: CSIRO Publishing. pp. x 851 pp. ISBN 0-643-06456-7.
- BirdLife International. (2007). Species factsheet: Orthonyx spaldingii. Downloaded from [1] on 9 August 2007
- Higgins, P.J.; & Peter, J.M. (eds). (2003). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 6: Pardalotes to Shrike-thrushes. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. ISBN 0-19-553762-9
External links
[edit]- Image at ADW Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
