Pampas Meadowlark
Leistes defilippii(Bonaparte, CLJL, 1850)
English (US) Pampas Meadowlark
The Pampas Meadowlark (Leistes defilippii) 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 Icteridae (New World Blackbirds, Troupials, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: tall-grass pampas mainly of southern Buenos Aires Province (east-central Argentina) and Uruguay; formerly Rio Grande do Sul (southeastern Brazil)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Leistes defilippii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Pampas Meadowlark
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1850)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trupialis defiilippii
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1850)
- Type locality
- 'ex Bras., Parag., Montevideo'; type from Montevideo, Uruguay, fide Hellmayr, 1937, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 13, pt. 10, p. 207.
- Original description
- Conspectus generum avium 1 p.429
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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