Thick-billed Longspur
Rhynchophanes mccownii(Lawrence, GN, 1851)
English (US) Thick-billed Longspur
The Thick-billed Longspur (Rhynchophanes mccownii) 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 western Canada to northwestern USA; winters to northwestern MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rhynchophanes mccownii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Thick-billed Longspur
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1851)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Plectrophanes mccownii
- Described by
- (Lawrence, GN, 1851)
- Type locality
- high prairies of western Texas.
- Original description
- Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 5(1852) p.122
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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