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Alternative name: Baywing

Photo by Fabio
Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 2005

Agelaioides badius

[edit] Identification

18cm
Light brown overall with rufous wings, heavy black conical bill, black legs and eyes, and black lores.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

Subspecies fringillarius
Photo by Pantanal1
Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Especially older checklists have placed this species in the genus Molothrus, but it is now placed in genus Agelaioides.

[edit] Subspecies

This is a polytypic species consisting of three subspecies^[1]:

• A. b. fringillarius:

• Campos of north-eastern Brazil (Piauí to Pernambuco, Bahia, Minas Gerais)

• A. b. badius:

• Eastern Bolivia (Beni and Tarija) to Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina

• A. b. bolivianus:

• Highlands of central and southern Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Semi-open habitats, including scrub and light woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

It sometimes builds its own nest or uses those of other birds. It is a victim of brood parasitism by other cowbirds mainly the Screaming Cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds