Gray-collared Becard - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Raul Padilla
Tenango de Doria, Mexico, April 2010

Pachyramphus major

Identification

14–15·5 cm

Distribution

Central America: found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua

Taxonomy

Subsjpecies

adult female
Photo by Peter R. Bono
El Ocote, west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

• P. m. australis:

• Guatemala to north-central Nicaragua

• P. m. itzensis:

• South-eastern Mexico (Campeche, Yucatán, Quintana Roo) and Belize

• P. m. major:

• Eastern Mexico (Nuevo León and San Luis Potosí to Chiapas)

• P. m. matudai:

• Pacific slope of southern Mexico (Chiapas) and northern Guatemala

• P. m. uropygialis:

• Western Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Michoacán and Guerrero)

Habitat

Cloud forest

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of insects and fruit.

Gallery

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  Adult male
  Photo by Peter R. Bono
  El Ocote, west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009

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  Adult male
  Photo by Peter R. Bono
  El Ocote, west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Gray-collared Becard. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gray-collared_Becard

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