Cardinals (Cardinalidae)
Blue Bunting (Cyanocompsa parellina) - HBW 16, p. 424
French: Évêque paré
German: Lasurbischof
Spanish: Picogrueso Azul
Taxonomy: Cyanoloxia parellina Bonaparte, 1850, Alvarado, Veracruz, Mexico.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Passerina. May form a superspecies with C. brissonii. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- indigotica (Ridgway, 1887) - W Mexico from C Sinaloa S on Pacific slope to S Oaxaca and extreme SW Chiapas.
- beneplacita Bangs, 1915 - NE Mexico (Nuevo León and extreme W Tamaulipas).
- lucida Sutton & Burleigh, 1939 - NE Mexico (S interior Tamaulipas).
- parellina (Bonaparte, 1850) - E Mexico (from Veracruz, E Puebla and N Oaxaca E to Tabasco, C Chiapas and Yucatán Peninsula) S to NW Nicaragua.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Male foraging in garden vegetation Locality Orange Walk District, Belize
Alexander Grimwade 19 March 2010 1 year ago 17 sec 3 -
A male moving in low vegetation. Locality Tehuantepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico (Southern) (ssp parellina)
Josep del Hoyo 15 April 2009 2 years ago 12 sec 2.2
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Young male.
Locality Tikal National Park, Petén Department, Guatemala
Knut Eisermann 29 October 2008 2 years ago 4.4
- No sound recordings available yet
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