Blue Grosbeak © audubon.org

Vagrant to Barbados, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Proposed subspecies mesophila (Texas) included within nominate.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• salicaria (Grinnell, 1911)   -  Breeds south-western USA (central and southern California, west-central Nevada and south-western Arizona) and extreme north-western Mexico (north-western Baja California); migrates to southern Baja California and western Mexico (southern Sonora south to Guerrero and Morelos).
• interfusa (Dwight & Griscom, 1927)   -  Breeds western USA (southern South Dakota south to Arizona and New Mexico) and northern Mexico (central Sinaloa, Durango and northern Coahuila); migrates to western Mexico (Sonora and Durango) south to Honduras.
• caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)   -  Breeds eastern USA from Kansas, Kentucky, south-eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey south to central and southern Texas, southern Louisiana, central Alabama and central Florida; migrates to region from eastern and southern Mexico south to Panama.
• eurhyncha (Coues, 1874)   -  Central and southern Mexico from southern Tamaulipas south to Oaxaca.
• deltarhyncha (van Rossem, 1938)   -  Pacific slope in Mexico from southern Sonora south to Guerrero.
• chiapensis (Nelson, 1898)   -  Southern Mexico (eastern Oaxaca and Chiapas) east to southern Guatemala.
• lazula (Lesson, R, 1842)   -  Southern Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras south through Pacific drainage to north-western Costa Rica.

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