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) [XC3337]
by Niels Krabbe from Estancia El Rosario, Cordoba, 10 km west of Santa Mar\u00eda, Punilla, C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina (song)

Olive-crowned Crescentchest (Melanopareia maximiliani) [XC60336]
by Peter Boesman from Joaquin V Gonzalez-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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