Chestnut-collared Longspur
Calcarius ornatus(Townsend, JK, 1837)
English (US) Chestnut-collared Longspur
The Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Calcariidae (Longspurs and Snow Buntings) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: breeds prairies of central North America; winters southwestern USA to northern MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calcarius ornatus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Chestnut-collared Longspur
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Plectrophanes ornata
- Described by
- (Townsend, JK, 1837)
- Type locality
- prairies of Platte River [=near forks of Platte River, western Nebraska, fide Amer. Ornith. Union, 1931, Check-list North Amer. Birds, ed. 4, p. 362].
- Original description
- Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7 p.189
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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