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

Heteroxolmis dominicana

Xolmis dominicanus

[edit] 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

[edit] Distribution

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

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

This species is placed in the genus Xolmis by some authors^[1] and Heteroxolmis by others^[2][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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Vocalisation

Mostly silent. Occasionally delivers soft calls.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
3. Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
4. BirdLife International
5. Krüger & Petry (2010). Ornitologia Tropical 21(2): 299-303

• List of references

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