Olive-crowned Crescentchest - BirdForum Opus

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Photo © by Stanley Jones
Cordoba Province, Argentina, 4 October 2019

Melanopareia maximiliani

Distribution

South America, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1].

• M. m. maximiliani:
Yungas of Western Bolivia (La Paz)

• M. m. argentina:
Central Bolivia to northwestern Argentina (Western Cordoba, Northern San Luis)

• M. m. pallida:
Southeastern Bolivia and chaco of Western Paraguay and Northern Argentina

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Krabbe, N. and T. S. Schulenberg (2020). Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.olccre1.01
3. Lepage D. (2021) [Avibase - https://avibase.ca/B75A42C7]. Retrieved 1 March 2021

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