Collared Towhee (Pipilo ocai)

Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
21 - 22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lawrence, 1867)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 1,500 - 3,750 m.

Range (Guide)

Mexico.

Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Collared Towhee (Pipilo ocai) [XC663796]
by ALAN MONROY OJEDA from Santa Catarina Ixtepeji, Oaxaca, Mexico (call)

Collared Towhee (Pipilo ocai) [XC301365]
by Frank Lambert from Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Relationships of genus not clear, although generally placed close to several other, similarly proportioned tropical American genera (e.g. some Aimophila, Atlapetes, Pyrgisoma and Melozone). Commonly hybridizes with Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) in northern and east of range (mainly subspecies alticola and nigrescens, alticola forming a hybrid swarm with adjacent populations of that species), but in Oaxaca brunnescens apparently sympatric with Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus) without interbreeding.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

alticola (Salvin & Godman, 1889) - Western Jalisco and extreme north-eastern Colima, in western Mexico.
nigrescens (Salvin & Godman, 1889) - North-central Michoac�n (east to near Morelia), in central Mexico.
guerrerensis van Rossem, 1938 - Sierra Madre del Sur (in Guerrero), in south-western Mexico.
ocai (Lawrence, 1867) - Mountains of eastern Puebla and west-central Veracruz, in east-central Mexico.
brunnescens van Rossem, 1938 - Central Oaxaca, in southern Mexico.

References
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Files:

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