Crested Bobwhite

Taxonomy

Order

Galliformes

Family

Odontophoridae

Genus

Colinus

eBird Code

crebob3

Vocalizations

Subspecies (13)

• Colinus cristatus badius

  Cauca Valley to Pacific slope of western Andes of Colombia

• Colinus cristatus barnesi

  west-central Venezuela (Portuguesa and Barinas)

• Colinus cristatus bogotensis

  eastern Andes of Colombia (Boyacá and Cundinamarca)

• Colinus cristatus cristatus

  northeastern Colombia (eastern Santa Marta Mountains) eastward through the Guajira Peninsula to the coast of northwestern Venezuela; also Aruba and Curaçao (where possibly introduced)

• Colinus cristatus decoratus

  Caribbean coast of Colombia

• Colinus cristatus horvathi

  Andes of northwestern Venezuela (Mérida)

• Colinus cristatus leucotis

  northern Colombia (Magdalena and Sinú valleys)

• Colinus cristatus littoralis

  northern base of Santa Marta Mountains (northeastern Colombia)

• Colinus cristatus mariae

  savanna of southwestern Costa Rica and western Panama (Chiriquí)

• Colinus cristatus mocquerysi

  northeastern Venezuela (Sucre, northern Monagas, and northern Anzoátegui)

• Colinus cristatus panamensis

  lowlands of Pacific slope of west-central Panama

• Colinus cristatus parvicristatus

  east slope of eastern Andes of Colombia and adjacent Venezuela

• Colinus cristatus sonnini

  coastal northern Venezuela to the Guianas and far northern Brazil