California towhee subspecies

California towhees are largely sedentary, non-migratory. Several people appear to be IDing incorrectly to subspecies presumably based on common name, i.e. Northern California Towhee (bogus).

Oberholser, H. C. 1919 Description of a New Subspecies of Pipilo Fuscus. Condor 21(5):210-211. https://sora.unm.edu/node/96240

Grinnell & Swarth. 1926. Systematic review of the Pacific coast brown towhees. Univ. of Calif. Publications Zoology https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/93394#page/543/mode/1up

Grinnell & Miller. 1944. A Distributional List of the Birds of California. Pacific Coast Avifauna 11. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California. https://sora.unm.edu/node/122

Paynter, R. A., Jr. 1970. Subfamily Emberizinae. Pages 3-214 in Check-list of birds of the world. [p175] https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50593#page/191/mode/1up Cited as primary reference for subspecies by Pyle 1997.

Pyle, P. [at ppyle] 1997. Identification Guide to North American Birds. Part I. Slate Creek Press, Bolinas, CA, USA. (note: a second edition was published in 2020 which I have not seen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142990418)

Benedict et al. 2020. California Towhee (Melozone crissalis'), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.Org/10.2173/bow.caltow.01

Posted on 02 de janeiro de 2024, 03:28 AM by cnddb_brian