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Photo by Rogerio Araújo Dias
Brazil

Xolmis cinerea

[edit] Identification

Ashy-grey above with white above the lores. The wings are mostly black with a white speculum when at rest which is seen as a very conspicuous white "V" in flight. The tail is black with a broad white tip. The throat is white with a broad dark grey malar stripe while the breast is ashy-grey and the belly is white.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Guianas, Suriname, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by arthurgrosset
Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, July 2002

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• X. c. cinereus:

• Suriname; Amazonian and eastern Brazil, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina

• X. c. pepoaza:

• South-eastern Peru (Madre de Dios) to eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina

[edit] Habitat

Grasslands with scattered trees and cerrado; city parks.

[edit] Behaviour

[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. Avibase

• List of references

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