Booted Warbler

Booted Warbler / Iduna caligata

Booted Warbler

Here the details of the Booted Warbler named bird below:

SCI Name:  Iduna caligata
Protonym:  Sylvia caligata ReisevonOrenburgBuchara[Eversmann] p.128
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Acrocephalidae /
Taxonomy Code:  boowar1
Type Locality:  Ilek River, near Orenburg.
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Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

IDUNA
(Acrocephalidae; Ϯ Booted Warbler I. caligata) Norse myth. Iðunn or Iduna, goddess of spring and fertility, keeper of the magic apples of rejuvenation, who was changed into a sparrow to enable her rescue by Loki, in falcon form, from the giant Þjazi or Thiassi (Raul Mohedano in litt.); "IDUNA:  235. L. CALIGATA Lichtenst. — Sylvia caligata Licht. in Eversm. Reise p. 128. — Motacilla Salicaria Pall. Zoogr. I. p. 492. n. 127.  In Russland und Sibirien strichweise in Weidengebüschen an Flüssen hin, so weit strauchartige Gewächse gedeihen, auch in Daurien beobachtet, von EVERSMANN am Ilek, einem Nebenflusse des Ural angetroffen." (von Keyserling & Blasius 1840); "Iduna Keyserling and J. H. Blasius, 1840, Wirbelthiere Europa's, p. 58. Type, by monotypy, Sylvia caligata Lichtenstein." (Watson in Peters 1986, XI, 78).
Synon. Chloropeta, Jerdonia, Psaltria.

caligata / caligatus
L. caligatus booted < caliga boot.
● ex “Chorlito pardo menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 400 (syn. Tringa solitaria).
● “Booted Trogon ... is rendered remarkable by the circumstance of the tarsi being thickly clothed down to the toes” (Gould 1838) (subsp. Trogon violaceus).