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 LC    Abert's Towhee* Id (Atlas):
    Melozone aberti

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Pipilo aberti [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Pipilo aberti [Stotz et al. (1996)], Pipilo aberti [BirdLife International (2004, 2008)], Pyrgisoma aberti

Family
Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Baird, 1852)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,250 m.

Range (Guide)
Mexico, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 200,000 (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

 
Abert's Towhee (Melozone aberti) [XC321858]
     by Frank Lambert from Rodeo, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States (song)

 
Abert's Towhee (Melozone aberti) [XC846105]
     by Scott Crabtree from Hereford, United States (song)

Subspecies
Formerly placed in genus Pipilo and sometimes in Melozone. Molecular analysis indicates that California Towhee (Melozone crissalis) is a sister-taxon. Geographical variation clinal.

Proposed subspecies voorhiesi (described from c. 15 km south of Tucson, in Arizona) treated as synonym of dumeticolus.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • dumeticolus (Baird, 1852)   -  South-western USA from south-western Utah south through Colorado Valley in south-eastern Nevada to south-eastern California, and eastern along Gila R in southern Arizona, also extreme north-western Mexico (extreme northern Baja California and north-western Sonora).
  • aberti (Baird, 1852)   -  South-western USA in southern Arizona and south-western New Mexico.
  • vorhiesi (Phillips, 1962)   -  Southern Arizona (Tucson region) to extreme south-western New Mexico.



References
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Files:
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