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Photo by Robert_Scanlon
Location: Panama, January 2004

Molothrus oryzivorus

Scaphidura oryzivora

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Southern North America and South America

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. o. impacifus:

• Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (southern Veracruz) to western Panama

• M. o. oryzivorus:

• Eastern Panama to Bolivia, Paraguay, south-eastern Brazil and north-eastern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Forest clearings

[edit] Behaviour

Ground feeder

[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

[edit] External Links