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Eastern Meadowlark [magna]

Sturnella magna [magna] (= Sturnella magna magna) (Linnaeus, C 1758)




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Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Icteridae
Genus:
   Sturnella
Scientific:
  Sturnella magna magna


Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1758)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 10 1 p.167

Protonym:
  A[lauda] magna

Type locality:
  'in America, Africa' ; restricted to South Carolina by Amer. Ornith. Union, 1931, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, p. 301.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/186/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  BF9F5E852F4050D4

Avibase ID:
  avibase-BF9F5E85

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/BF9F5E85


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 179035

Geographic range:

  • Sturnella magna magna: southern Ontario eastward to Quebec and southward to northern Texas and northeastern Georgia
  • Sturnella magna praticola: llanos of eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and southwestern Guyana
  • Sturnella magna monticola: tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Roraima)
  • Sturnella magna argutula: southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma to eastern USA (Carolinas to Florida)
  • Sturnella magna hoopesi: southern Texas (Eagle Pass) to northern Coahuila, Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas
  • Sturnella magna auropectoralis: western Mexico from southern Sinaloa, coastal Nayarit, and southern Durango across the Trans-Volcanic Belt eastward to the upper Río Lerma, Estado de México; populations between México and the Sierra Madre Oriental, in Tlaxcala, Puebla, and adjacent areas, also may represent auropectoralis, but this requires confirmation
  • Sturnella magna saundersi: southern Mexico (Oaxaca)
  • Sturnella magna alticola: highlands of southern Mexico (Guerrero, southern Puebla, and Veracruz) to Costa Rica
  • Sturnella magna mexicana: Caribbean slope of southeastern Mexico (Veracruz and Tabasco to Chiapas)
  • Sturnella magna griscomi: southeastern Mexico (arid coastal of northern Yucatán Peninsula)
  • Sturnella magna inexspectata: pine savanna of Belize, Petén of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua
  • Sturnella magna subulata: Pacific slope of Panama
  • Sturnella magna meridionalis: eastern Andes of Colombia to Andes of northwestern Venezuela
  • Sturnella magna paralios: northern Colombia and savannas of western Venezuela
  • Sturnella magna quinta: Suriname and northeastern Amazonian Brazil
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English:
Eastern Meadowlark [magna]
French:
Sturnelle des prés [magna]


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Eastern Meadowlark [magna] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Eastern Meadowlark [magna] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Eastern Meadowlark [magna] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Eastern Meadowlark [nominate] ( Sturnella magna [magna])

Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Sturnella magna

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German: Lerchenstärling
English: Eastern Meadowlark (nominate), Eastern Meadowlark [magna], Eastern Meadowlark [nominate]
Spanish: Turpial Oriental
French: Sturnelle des prés (magna), Sturnelle des prés (nominal), Sturnelle des prés [magna]
Italian: Sturnella allodola orientale
Scientific: Alauda magna, Sturnella magna [magna], Sturnella magna magna
Dutch: Witkaakweidespreeuw
Polish: wojak obrozny

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