Smith's Longspur
Calcarius pictus(Swainson, WJ, 1832)
English (US) Smith's Longspur
The Smith's Longspur (Calcarius pictus) 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 Alaska and western Canada; winters in south-central USARange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calcarius pictus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Smith's Longspur
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Emberiza (Plectrophanes) picta
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
- Type locality
- Carlton House, Saskatchewan.
- Original description
- Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part second, the birds pt.2 p.250 pl.49
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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