Singing Quail

Taxonomy

Order

Galliformes

Family

Odontophoridae

Genus

Dactylortyx

eBird Code

sinqua1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (11)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus chiapensis

  southern Mexico, from southeastern Oaxaca eastward to central Chiapas

• Dactylortyx thoracicus conoveri

  Honduras (Department of Olancho)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus devius

  western Mexico (Jalisco)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus dolichonyx

  southern Mexico (Sierra Madre de Chiapas) and western Guatemala

• Dactylortyx thoracicus fuscus

  central Honduras (Francisco Morazán highlands of Tegucigalpa)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus melodus

  western Mexico (central Guerrero)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus paynteri

  southern Mexico (south-central Quintana Roo)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus pettingilli

  eastern Mexico (southwestern Tamaulipas and southeastern San Luis Potosí)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus salvadoranus

  highlands of El Salvador

• Dactylortyx thoracicus sharpei

  Yucatan Peninsula (Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo, southeastern Mexico) to Petén (northern Guatemala)

• Dactylortyx thoracicus thoracicus

  eastern Mexico (northeastern Puebla and central Veracruz)