Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Say, T 1822)

Reference:
   Exped. Pittsburgh Rocky Mountains [James] 2 p.14,note

Imprint year:
  1823

Protonym:
  Tetrao obscurus

Type locality:
  'Defile Creek,' about twenty miles north of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124315#page/26/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  310777D6E4FFD4D4

Avibase ID:
  avibase-310777D6

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/310777D6

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 175860

Geographic range:

• Dendragapus obscurus: steppe and shrubby fields and open forest edges in western Canada, from southeastern Yukon and southwestern Northwest Territories southward along the Rocky Mountains to southwestern US (northern and central Arizona and New Mexico)
• Dendragapus obscurus obscurus: mountains of Wyoming to Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico
• Dendragapus obscurus richardsonii: Alaska and southern Yukon to Idaho, western Montana, and northwestern Wyoming
• Dendragapus obscurus pallidus: south-central British Columbia to eastern Washington and northeastern Oregon
• Dendragapus obscurus oreinus: mountains of northeastern Nevada and adjacent Utah
• Dendragapus fuliginosus sierrae: Cascades from Washington to California and Nevada
• Dendragapus fuliginosus howardi: southern California (southern Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains)
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