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Porto Alegre, Brazil

Coereba flaveola

[edit] Identification

11cm
Dark grey upperparts, black crown, yellow underparts and rump, prominent white eyestripe, slender, curved bill.
The subspecies differ in coloration, especially the throat, but also presence/absence of a white spot on the wing, and the amount of contrast on the rump (most are yellow). Some populations have an all-black color phase.
The sexes are alike.

[edit] Distribution

Mexico throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and South America to Bolivia and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

The Bananaquit is the only member of its genus and the only member of its family. Forty-one subspecies are included in the Clements checklist.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. f. bahamensis: Bahamas (Great Bahama and Little Abaco to Grand Turk)

Caribbean Group

• C. f. tricolor: Isla Providéncia (western Caribbean Sea)
• C. f. oblita: Isla San Andrés (western Caribbean Sea)
• C. f. sharpei: Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac
• C. f. flaveola: Jamaica
• C. f.a bananivora: Hispaniola, Gonâve, Petite Cayemite and ÃŽle-à-Vache
• C. f. nectarea: Tortue Island (off northern Haiti)
• C. f. portoricensis: Puerto Rico
• C. f. sanctithomae: Virgin Islands (including Vieques and Culebra)
• C. f. newtoni: St. Croix (Virgin Islands)
• C. f. bartholemica: Northern Lesser Antilles
• C. f. martinicana: Martinique and St. Lucia (Lesser Antilles)
• C. f. barbadensis: Barbados (Lesser Antilles)
• C. f. atrata: St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles)
• C. f. aterrima: Grenada and the Grenadines (Lesser Antilles)
• C. f. uropygialis: Netherlands Antilles (Aruba and Curaçao)
• C. f. caboti: Eastern Mexico (Cozumel Island, Holbox Island, Cancún and Cayo Culebra)

Mainland Group

• C. f. mexicana: South-eastern Mexico (Veracruz) to western Panama (Veraguas) and Coiba Island
• C. f. cerinoclunis: Pearl Islands (Bay of Panama)
• C. f. columbiana: Tropical eastern Panama to south-western Colombia and southern Venezuela (Amazonas)
• C. f. bonariensis: Bonaire Island (Netherlands Antilles)
• C. f. melanornis: Northern Venezuela (Cayo Sal off Chiririviche)
• C. f. lowii: Islas Los Roques (off northern Venezuela)
• C. f. ferryi: Isla La Tortuga (off northern Venezuela)
• C. f. frailensis: Isla de Puerto Real and Morro El Fondeadero (off Venezuela)
• C. f. laurae: Isla Testigo Grande and Isla Conejo (off northern Venezuela)
• C. f. luteola: Tropical northern Colombia to northern Venezuela; Trinidad and Tobago
• C. f. obscura: Tropical north-eastern Colombia and western Venezuela
• C. f. minima: Tropical eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil
• C. f. montana: Highlands of western Venezuela (Mérida and Táchira)
• C. f. caucae: Western Colombia (upper Cauca Valley)
• C. f. gorgonae: Gorgona Island (off western Colombia)
• C. f. intermedia: South-Western Colombia to northern Peru, south-western Venezuela and western Brazil
• C. f. bolivari: Eastern Venezuela (lower Orinoco River Valley)
• C. f. guianensis: Tropical eastern Venezuela (Bolívar) and adjacent Guyana
• C. f. roraimae: Tepuis of south-eastern Venezuela, north-western Brazil and adjacent south-western Guyana
• C. f. pacifica: Arid north-western Peru (Lambayeque, western La Libertad and Ancash)
• C. f. magnirostris: Northern Peru (upper Marañón Valley)
• C. f. dispar: Central Peru (San Martín) to north-western Bolivia (La Paz)
• C. f. chloropyga: Tropical southern Peru to Bolivia, Paraguay, western Brazil and north-eastern Argentina
• C. f. alleni: Plateau of central Brazil (Mato Grosso) and eastern Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Adaptable from gardens to rainforest.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes nectar, fruit and insects.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

• List of references

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