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(C. n. caboti, male)
Photo by Glen Tepke
Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico, January 2011

(C. n. caboti, female)
Photo by Glen Tepke
Rio Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico, January 2011

Colinus nigrogularis

Identification

22cm
Male

• Mottled brown crown
• Black in front of eyes
• Black throat separated from black eye-stripe by broad whitish stripe passing through ear region and down neck
• Underparts "scaly" black and white pattern
• Upperparts patterned with buff, brown, and black
  

Female

• Buffy chin and upper throat
• Nape feathers edged grey
• Ear feathers streaked buff
• White breast with dark shaft-streaks and cross-bars with two rows of terminal white spots

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

There are 4 subspecies:

• C. n. persiccus:

• South-eastern Mexico (Progresso area of Yucatán Peninsula)

• C. n. caboti:

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

• C. n. nigrogularis:

• Belize and adjacent northern Guatemala

• C. n. segoviensis:

• Eastern Honduras and north-eastern Nicaragua

Habitat

Dry shrubland and seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, brush borders.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Digital Commons
4. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-throated Bobwhite. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-throated_Bobwhite

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