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The eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a medium-sized icterid bird, very similar in appearance to its sister species, the western meadowlark. It occurs from eastern North America to northern South America, where it is also most widespread in the east. The Chihuahuan meadowlark was formerly considered to be conspecific with the eastern ...
The western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) is a medium-sized species of bird in the family Icteridae, the icterids. About 8.5 inches (22 centimetres) in length, it is found across western and central North America. It is a full migrant, breeding in Canada and the United States with resident populations also found in Mexico.
As a group, the meadowlarks have had a volatile taxonomic history. When Carl Linnaeus described the eastern meadowlark (the first of the meadowlarks to be scientifically described) in his epic 10th edition of Systema Naturae in 1758, he thought it was related to the Old World larks, and so put it in the genus Alauda with them. [1]
Peruvian meadowlark Leistes bellicosus (De Filippi, 1847) western Peru, Ecuador and far northern Chile. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Pampas meadowlark male female Leistes defilippii (Bonaparte, 1850) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Size: Habitat: Diet: VU Long-tailed meadowlark Leistes loyca (Molina, 1782) southern South America and the Falkland Islands
The long-tailed meadowlark (Leistes loyca) is a passerine bird of southern South America and the Falkland Islands, belonging to the meadowlark genus Leistes in the icterid family that looks very similar to the related endangered species, the Pampas meadowlark. in El Chalten, Argentina. It is 25 to 28 cm long with a fairly long tail and a long ...
The genus Sturnella was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot with the eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) as the type species. [1] [2] The name Sturnella is a diminutive of the Latin sturnus meaning "starling". [3] By the early 20th century, the meadowlarks were split.
The white-browed meadowlark is a small icterid. The male has mainly black plumage, apart from a bright red throat, belly and wing epaulets, and a white supercilium. The female has buff edged dark brown upperpart feathers, buff underparts, and pale streaks through the crown and eye. Juveniles resemble the female, but are paler.
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