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Revision as of 10:10, 26 May 2018

Photo by Sussex bird man
Peninsula Valdes, Argentina, November 2005
Leistes loyca

Sturnella loyca

Identification

Length 24.0-25.5 cm, wingspan 11.4-13.1 cm, weight 67-131 g. Female markedly smaller, with apparently no overlap in wing length and little in tail length.
Male: Overall heavily streaked grey-brown with strong white supercillium (red nearest bill), very dark side of head with thin white submoustacial stripe. Strong, straight, grey, pointed bill. Bright red breast. White underwing.
Female: Supercilium and throat buffy, underside mostly streaked similar to upperside, pale pink area to central belly and lower breast.

Subspecies falklandica
Photo by crispash
Volunteer Point , Falklands East Island, March 2005

Distribution

Southern Chile, southern Argentina, and the Falkland Islands.

Taxonomy

In the past, this taxon has been included in Pampas Meadowlark.
Clements places this species in the genus Sturnella.

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized by Clements[1]:

  • L. l. catamarcanus: Paler
  • North-western Argentina (Jujuy and Catamarca)
  • L. l. loyca: Smaller, widespread
  • L. l. falklandicus: Largest, with the longest bill

A fourth subspecies obscura from the highlands of Central Argentina is recognized by Howard & Moore[2] & HBW[3]. It is darker with red more restricted.

Habitat

Coastal areas, meadow land and tussock grass, often with rocks.

Behaviour

Breeding

Nests are made by the female and are woven from grass, with an entrance tunnel, and are hidden amongst ground vegetation or gorse. Sub-species falklandica - female builds a nest of dry grass, hidden on ground or in tussock grass.

Late Aug--late Nov, 2-4 blue-white eggs, blotched purple and black are laid and incubated by the female for about 14 days. Both parents feed the young and probably raise two broods per season.

Diet

Diet includes worms, grubs, beetles, caterpillars and marine invertebrates taken from the shore.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0956861122
  3. Fraga, R. (2018). Long-tailed Meadowlark (Leistes loyca). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/62328 on 23 May 2018).
  4. Gill, F & D Donsker (Eds). 2018. IOC World Bird List (v8.1). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.8.1. Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
  1. Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, C. D. Cadena, S. Claramunt, A. Jaramillo, J. F. Pacheco, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, D. F. Stotz, and K. J. Zimmer. Version [6 April 2018]. A classification of the bird species of South America. American Ornithologists' Union. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm
  2. Avibase

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