Speckled Mourner (Laniocera rufescens)

Family
Tityridae (Tityras And Allies)

Size
19 - 20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater, 1858)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical moist lowland forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama.

Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (12)...)

Speckled Mourner (Laniocera) [XC372324]
by Daniel Errichetti from Metet\u00ed, Dari\u00e9n, Panama (song)

Speckled Mourner (Laniocera rufescens) [XC237513]
by Liliana Chavarria-Duriaux from El Molej\u00f3n, PN Saslaya, BOSAWAS, Nicaragua (song)

Subspecies
Genus often placed in Cotingidae, and possibly better treated in that family. Forms a superspecies with Cinereous Mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

rufescens (Sclater, 1858) - South-eastern Mexico south to coastal north-western Colombia.
griseigula Meyer de Schauensee, 1950 - North-western Colombia (C�rdoba, northern Antioquia, Santander).
tertia (Hartert, 1902) - South-western Colombia (Cauca, western Nari�o) and north-western Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Pichincha).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Speckled Mourner (Laniocera rufescens) - 10 files

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