Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1253408
Element CodeABPBXB2050
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVertebrate Animal
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumCraniata
ClassAves
OrderPasseriformes
FamilyIcteridae
GenusSturnella
SynonymsSturnella magna lilianaeOberholser, 1930
Concept ReferenceAmerican Ornithological Society (AOS). Chesser, R. T., S. M. Billerman, K. J. Burns, C. Cicero, J. L. Dunn, B. E. Hernández-Baños, R. A. Jiménez, A. W. Kratter, N. A. Mason, P. C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, Jr., D. F. Stotz, and K. Winker. 2022. Sixty-third Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds. Ornithology 139:1-13.
Taxonomic CommentsFormerly (e.g., AOU 1957, 1983, 1998) considered conspecific with S. magna due to similarities in voice and plumage (Lanyon 1962), but separated based on genomic data that indicate that S. magna sensu lato is paraphyletic with respect to S. neglecta, and quantitative differences in vocalizations (Beam et al. 2021); morphological and ecological differences are also considerable (Rohwer 1976). As circumscribed here, S. lilianae consists of subspecies lilianae and auropectoralis (Barker et al. 2008, Beam et al. 2021) (AOS 2022).
Conservation Status
Range Extent200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles)
Range Extent CommentsBreeds from northern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and western Texas (possibly also in southeastern Colorado), south to northern Sonora and northern Chihuahua, and disjunctly from southern Sinaloa and Durango south along the coast to Nayarit and in the interior to Michoacán and México. Winters from central Arizona and southern New Mexico through the remainder of the breeding range. Casual or accidental in winter west to the Colorado River (Arizona) and east to Kinney and Val Verde counties, Texas (AOS 2022).