White-winged Becard

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tityridae

Genus

Pachyramphus

eBird Code

whwbec1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (8)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus cinereiventris

  northern Colombia (except for northern Chocó), eastward to the Santa Marta region

• Pachyramphus polychopterus dorsalis

  western and central Colombia (west slope of Andes in southern Nariño, and upper Cauca and Magdalena Valleys) and northwestern Ecuador (southward to northern Pichincha)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus nigriventris

  southeastern Colombia (Meta) southward through eastern Peru (east of the range of tenebrosus) to northern Bolivia, and eastward to southern Venezuela and western Brazil (both banks of upper Amazon River eastward to Rio Jamundá and east bank of Rio Madeira)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus polychopterus

  eastern Brazil (Piauí and Ceará to Alagoas and Bahia)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus similis

  far southern Mexico (eastern Chiapas), Belize, and Caribbean slope of Guatemala southward to Costa Rica and Panama (both slopes), and to far northwestern Colombia (northern Chocó)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus spixii

  breeds south-central and southern Brazil (Mato Grosso to Espírito Santo, southward to Rio Grande do Sul) and possibly southern Bolivia, southward to northern Argentina; partially migratory, wintering northward to southeastern Peru and northern Bolivia

• Pachyramphus polychopterus tenebrosus

  southeastern Colombia (Caquetá) southward to eastern Ecuador and northern Peru (north of the Amazon eastward to the Napo, also south of the Marañón eastward to the lower Huallaga)

• Pachyramphus polychopterus tristis

  northeastern Colombia (Norte de Santander) eastward to the Guianas, Trinidad and Tobago, and northeastern Brazil (Roraima eastward to Maranhão and southeastern Pará)