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Photo by Glen Tepke
Male, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 23 March 2006. This is an atypical individual - the lower mandible is not normally larger than the upper.

Pheucticus chrysopeplus

[edit] Identification

21-24cm. Light lemon underparts, black back with yellow mottlings, yellow rump, black upper tail coverts with white tips, black wings and tail with white spots, patches, and wingbars, grey-black bill. Females are similar with olive upperparts, dark streaks on the crown and back, white markings on the wings, especially the white base of the primaries, are smaller.

[edit] Distribution

Mexico.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Forest, woodland, and edge.

[edit] Behaviour

It builds a cup nest in a bush or small tree and 2-5 pale blue to greenish eggs with heavy brown and grey speckling, are laid.

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