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[[Image:Black-and-white_Monjita_male_by_Jamfaraco.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male<br />Photo by {{user|Jamfaraco|Jamfaraco}}<br />Lages/SC, [[Brazil]], October 2006]]
[[Image:Black_and_White_Monjita.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Jamfaraco]]
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;[[: Category:Xolmis|Xolmis]] dominicanus
==Description==
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''Heteroxolmis dominicana''
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==Habitat : ==
 
Open areas. Fields and humid fields.
 
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Photographed at Lages/SC, Brazil.
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*20.5 cm.<br />
==Current Taxonomy==
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''' Male'''
By many the monotypic genus Heteroxolmis is disallowed and this bird is collocated within genus XolmisThe current Sibley-Monroe, however, does recognize genus Heteroxolmis.
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*White body
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*Black wings and tail
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*White wing-tips particularly noticeable in flight<br />
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'''Female''': similar
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*Crown, back of neck and back are a brownish-grey
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==Distribution==
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South-eastern [[Brazil]] (Paraná) to [[Paraguay]], [[Uruguay]] and north-east [[Argentina]]
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==Taxonomy==
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>.<br />
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This species is placed in the genus ''[[: Category:Xolmis|Xolmis]]'' by some authors<sup>[[#References|[1]]][[#References|[2]]]</sup> and  [[: Category:Heteroxolmis|''Heteroxolmis'']] by others<sup>[[#References|[3]]]</sup>. The second part of the scientific name has recently been changed, from ''dominicana'' to ''dominicanus'' but this is not yet accepted by most world lists.
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==Habitat==
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[[Image:Black_and_White_Monjita.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female <br />Photo by {{user|Jamfaraco|Jamfaraco}}<br />Lages/SC, [[Brazil]], September 2004]]
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Open areas, fields and humid fields, dry lowland grassland, seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, and pastureland.
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==Behaviour==
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Other species, such as [[Saffron-cowled Blackbird]] likes to be around this species, seemingly because it is good at detecting approaching dangers such as raptors.
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====Vocalisation====
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Mostly silentOccasionally delivers soft calls.
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==References==
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug15}}#{{Ref-HM04}}#{{Ref-GillDonsker15V5.3}}#BirdLife International
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#Krüger & Petry (2010). Ornitologia Tropical 21(2): 299-303
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{{ref}}
  
''Originally posted by '''cuckooroller'''''
 
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
{{GSearch|Heteroxolmis+dominicana}}  
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{{GSearch|Xolmis+dominican}}
[[Category:Birds]]
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{{Video|Black_and_white_Monjita}}
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[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Xolmis]] [[Category:Videos]]

Revision as of 20:54, 4 September 2015

Male
Photo by Jamfaraco
Lages/SC, Brazil, October 2006
Xolmis dominicanus

Heteroxolmis dominicana

Identification

  • 20.5 cm.

Male

  • White body
  • Black wings and tail
  • White wing-tips particularly noticeable in flight

Female: similar

  • Crown, back of neck and back are a brownish-grey

Distribution

South-eastern Brazil (Paraná) to Paraguay, Uruguay and north-east Argentina

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species[1].

This species is placed in the genus Xolmis by some authors[1][2] and Heteroxolmis by others[3]. The second part of the scientific name has recently been changed, from dominicana to dominicanus but this is not yet accepted by most world lists.

Habitat

Female
Photo by Jamfaraco
Lages/SC, Brazil, September 2004

Open areas, fields and humid fields, dry lowland grassland, seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, and pastureland.

Behaviour

Other species, such as Saffron-cowled Blackbird likes to be around this species, seemingly because it is good at detecting approaching dangers such as raptors.

Vocalisation

Mostly silent. Occasionally delivers soft calls.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0956861122
  3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  4. BirdLife International
  5. Krüger & Petry (2010). Ornitologia Tropical 21(2): 299-303

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