Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani)

Other Names (World)
Olive-crowned Crescentchest, Olive-crowned Crescent-chest

Family
Melanopareiidae (Crescentchests)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(D'Orbigny, 1835)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude grassland and shrubland. From 1,200 - 2,950 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A fairly slow monotone trill which drops away slightly at the end. Alarm call is a rapid, dysallabic 'chikchuck'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (54)...)

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC60337]
by Peter Boesman from San Jose de Las Salinas, Cordoba, Argentina (song)

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC8985]
by Niels Krabbe from 18km northeast of JV Gonzales, Salta, Argentina (song)

Subspecies
Genus differs considerably from other members of family, though shows certain structural similarities with Teledromas. Subspecies pallida, differing vocally from others, is possibly a separate species. Racial affinities of birds from central Bolivian Yungas in Cochabamba uncertain and tentatively included in subspecies argentina.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

maximiliani (D'Orbigny, 1835) - Yungas of western Bolivia (La Paz).
argentina (Hellmayr, 1907) - Central Bolivia (Yungas of Cochabamba, and from western Santa Cruz) southern on Andean slopes to north-western Argentina (south to western C�rdoba and northern San Luis).
pallida Nores & Yzurieta, 1980 - South-eastern Bolivia, and lowland Chaco of western Paraguay and northern Argentina (from eastern Formosa south to C�rdoba).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) - 10 files

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