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Male
Photo by John Keep
Pantanos de Villa, Peru, October 2003

Sturnella bellicosa

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

Polytypic. Consists of three subspecies^[1]

• S. b. bellicosa:

• Pacific slope of Ecuador to northern Peru

• S. b. albipes:

• Arid littoral of south-western Peru (Ica) to extreme northern Chile

• S. b. catamarcanus:

• North-western Argentina (Jujuy and Catamarca)

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Pampas Meadowlark by some authors, and catamarcanus not recognised by all^[2]

Female
Photo by mmdnje
Chongon, Guayas Province, Ecuador, December 2005

[edit] Habitat

Coastal grasslands

[edit] Behaviour

[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.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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