Rufous-crowned Sparrow

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Passerellidae

Genus

Aimophila

eBird Code

rucspa

Subspecies (17)

• Aimophila ruficeps australis

  southern Mexico (Guerrero to southern Puebla and Oaxaca)

• Aimophila ruficeps boucardi

  central Mexico (southern San Luis Potosí to Guanajuato and Querétaro southward to central Veracruz and northern Puebla)

• Aimophila ruficeps canescens

  southwestern California and northeastern Baja (eastward to base of San Pedro Mártir)

• Aimophila ruficeps duponti

  Mexico City area (south-central Mexico)

• Aimophila ruficeps eremoeca

  southeastern Colorado to New Mexico, Texas, northern Chihuahua, and central Coahuila

• Aimophila ruficeps extima

  Guerrero and southern Puebla southward through southern Oaxaca (southwestern Mexico)

• Aimophila ruficeps fusca

  eastern Jalisco to northern Colima and northern Michoacán (southwestern Mexico)

• Aimophila ruficeps laybournae

  Veracruz to Oaxaca (south-central Mexico)

• Aimophila ruficeps obscura

  Channel Islands (Santa Cruz, Anacapa, and Catalina)

• Aimophila ruficeps pallidissima

  northeastern Mexico

• Aimophila ruficeps phillipsi

  southeastern Sinaloa (west-central Mexico)

• Aimophila ruficeps ruficeps

  coastal ranges of central California and west slopes of Sierra Nevada

• Aimophila ruficeps sanctorum

  Todos Santos Islands (off northwestern Baja California)

• Aimophila ruficeps scottii

  northern, eastern, and southwestern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico (southwestern USA), and northwestern Mexico

• Aimophila ruficeps simulans

  northwestern to western Mexico

• Aimophila ruficeps sororia

  mountains of southern Baja California (Sierra de la Laguna)

• Aimophila ruficeps suttoni

  eastern Nayarit to northern and western Jalisco and southern Colima (western Mexico)