Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (B) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (B) (NB).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 5,000,000 - 50,000,000 (2010).
Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) [XC789043]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Monte Alegre, Comunidade Tinguizal Kalunga, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)
Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) [XC795744]
by Daniel Hinckley from Jard\u00edn Bot\u00e1nico de San Andr\u00e9s, Colombia (song)
Subspecies
Taxonomic placement long disputed. Has often been placed in its own family, Coerebidae, and sometimes with New World warblers (Parulidae) or with buntings and New World sparrows (Emberizidae), sometimes as a subfamily. Recent molecular-genetic data do not support historically recognized family Coerebidae, but do show strong support for a monophyletic grouping that includes present genus, Tiaris, the Galapagos finches, and several Caribbean genera (especially Euneornis), all usually placed in Emberizidae but now thought to belong clearly within the thraupine lineage. Genetic variation between species in this clade comparable to that within most avian genera, despite marked differences in bill morphology and feeding behaviour. Within present species, molecular-phylogenetic studies reveal three clades, "bahamensis group" (Quintana Roo region of south-eastern Mexico, and Bahamas), "flaveola group" (Cayman Is, Jamaica and Hispaniola), and "bartholemica group" (Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, Mexico except Quintana Roo, and Central and South America), and these may be better treated as three separate species. Several taxa not yet sampled, but should fall within with one of above groups on basis of distribution; placement of south-western Caribbean island subspecies oblita (San Andrés) and tricolor (Providencia) remains uncertain. Recent molecular-genetic studies point to an origin in Greater Antilles, this followed by multiple expansion phases resulting in island to mainland colonization as the species extended its range. Remarkable geographical variation, especially in Caribbean islands. Number of subspecies likely subject to revision, some subspecies (or groups of races) perhaps worthy of species status and others poorly separated genetically; for example, roraimae could be subsumed in guianensis and alleni in chloropyga.
The following 41 subspecies are recognised:
caboti (Baird, SF, 1873) - South-eastern Mexico (Quintana Roo) and islands off north-eastern Yucatán Peninsula (Holbox, Cancún, Cozumel, and Cayo Culebra).
bahamensis (Reichenbach, 1853) - Bahamas (from Grand Bahama and Little Abaco south-east to Great Inagua and Grand Turk).
sharpei (Cory, 1886) - Grand Cayman I, Little Cayman I, and Cayman Brac.
flaveola (Linnaeus, 1758) - Jamaica.
bananivora (Gmelin, JF, 1789) - Hispaniola, Goní¢ve I, Petite Cayemite I and I í Vache.
nectarea Wetmore, 1929 - Tortue I, off Haiti.
tricolor (Ridgway, 1884) - Providencia I, off eastern Nicaragua.
oblita Griscom, 1923 - San Andrés I, off eastern Nicaragua.
mexicana (Sclater, PL, 1857) - South-eastern Mexico (from central Veracruz and Oaxaca) southern on Caribbean slope (and Pacific slope in Costa Rica) to western Panama (Veraguas, including Coiba I).
cerinoclunis Bangs, 1901 - Pearl Is, in Bay of Panama.
columbiana (Cabanis, 1866) - Panama (from Canal Zone) east through central and south-western Colombia (Andes from Antioquia to Huila) to southern Venezuela (extreme north-western Amazonas).
portoricensis (Bryant, H, 1866) - Puerto Rico.
sanctithomae (Sundevall, 1869) - Vieques I and Culebra I (off eastern Puerto Rico) and Virgin Is.
newtoni (Baird, SF, 1873) - St Croix (southern Virgin Is).
bartholemica (Sparrman, 1788) - Northern and central Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, St Martin, Saba, St Bartholomew south to Guadeloupe, Marie Galante and Dominica).
martinicana (Reichenbach, 1853) - Martinique and St Lucia (south-central Lesser Antilles).
barbadensis (Baird, SF, 1873) - Barbados.
atrata (Lawrence, 1878) - St Vincent, in southern Lesser Antilles.
aterrima (Lesson, R, 1830) - Grenada I and the Grenadines.
uropygialis von Berlepsch, 1892 - Aruba and Curaí§ao, in Netherlands Antilles.
bonairensis Voous, 1955 - Bonaire I, in Netherlands Antilles.
lowii Cory, 1909 - Los Roques Is, off northern Venezuela.
ferryi Cory, 1909 - La Tortuga I, off northern Venezuela.
frailensis Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1946 - Los Frailes (Puerto Real) and Los Hermanos, off northern Venezuela.
laurae Lowe, 1908 - Los Testigos Is, off northern Venezuela.
luteola (Cabanis, 1850) - Colombia (Caribbean coast of Bolívar and Magdalena) and northern Venezuela (Zulia east to Monagas, south to Apure and northern Bolívar); Trinidad and Tobago.
bolivari Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1946 - Eastern Venezuela (lower Orinoco Valley of Delta Amacuro, and northern and eastern Bolívar from R Cuchivero south to lower R Paragua).
guianensis (Cabanis, 1850) - Central Venezuela (lower Caura Valley) southern and eastern across Guyana.
roraimae Chapman, 1929 - Southern Venezuela (northern and eastern Amazonas, southern Bolívar) and region of Cerros Roraima and Uei-tepui in Guyana and south-eastern Venezuela.
minima (Bonaparte, 1854) - Eastern Colombia (R Guainía) and southern Venezuela (southern half of Amazonas) east to French Guiana and north-central Brazil (to Pará, north of R Amazon).
obscura Cory, 1913 - Western Venezuela (eastern side of L Maracaibo, south-eastern Zulia and below 1200 m in Andean foothills of Mérida and Táchira) and adjacent Colombia (Norte de Santander).
montana Lowe, 1912 - Venezuelan Andes (above 1200 m in Mérida and Táchira).
caucae Chapman, 1914 - Colombia in upper Cauca Valley and on slopes of central and western Andes (from Caldas south to Cauca).
intermedia (Salvadori & Festa, 1899) - South-western Colombia (Nariño), western Ecuador and northern Peru (from San Martín, and Loreto) east to western Brazil and southern Venezuela (south-western Amazonas).
gorgonae Thayer & Bangs, 1905 - Gorgona I, off western Colombia.
magnirostris (Taczanowski, 1880) - Peru in upper Marañón Valley (in Piura, Cajamarca and eastern Libertad).
pacifica Lowe, 1912 - Western Peru (north-western Lambayeque, western Libertad and Ancash).
dispar Zimmer, JT, 1942 - Central and south-eastern Peru (from southern San Martín) south to Bolivia (La Paz).
chloropyga (Cabanis, 1850) - Central Peru (from Huánuco and Junín) south to central Bolivia (to Santa Cruz), then eastern across south-central and eastern Brazil (to Ceará and Pernambuco, then south to Rio Grande do Sul) and south to eastern Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina (Misiones) and extreme northern Uruguay.
alleni Lowe, 1912 - Eastern Bolivia (Santa Cruz) east to central Brazil (Mato Grosso).
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